Health & Medical Question

RHM 1, SPRING 2024 Assignment 3 NAME: ———-1. In an Internet poll from quibblo.com 629 respondents indicated the following as their type of Health Insurance. a) Find the percent for Employment-based type of insurance. b) What kind of graph would be most appropriate to represent this data? Percentage of People by Type of Health Insurance Coverage Uninsured Direct-purchase Medicare Military health care Employment-based Count Percent 164 26% 129 21% 43 7% 52 8% 241 2. For the following set of data {3,6,5,4,6,5,9,10,11,7,9}, calculate: a) sample mean b) median c) mode d) standard deviation: e) 1st quartile f) 3rd quartile g) interquartile range 3. What is the mode for data given below? An eye clinic sister noted the eye-colour of 100 consecutive patients. The results are shown in Figure: 4. A researcher wishes to compare efficacy of laser ablation to standard anterior temporal lobectomy for the treatment of seizures. The outcome measure is the degree of seizure freedom as rated by the Engel Epilepsy Surgery Outcome Scale (Class I: free of disabling seizure, Class II: rare disabling seizure, Class III: worthwhile improvement, Class IV: no worthwhile improvement). This type of scale may be described as which of the following? A. Nominal B. Ordinal C. Numerical D. Discrete E. Binary 5. An important early step in the development of a search strategy for a systematic review is to break down the research question into individual components known as “concepts”. Once this is done and search terms for each concept are developed, which Boolean operator will make the search strategy broader? A. NOT B. AND C. OR D. All of these options E. AND & OR 6. A researcher wishes to assess the effect of Drug A compared to Drug B on hypertension. Subjects are randomized to two groups. The first group receives Drug A for eight weeks, takes no medication for the following two weeks, then receives Drug B for eight weeks. The second group receives Drug B for eight weeks, takes no medication for the following two weeks, then receives Drug A for eight weeks. Blood pressure is measured prior to the study and at week 8, week 10, and week 18. Which of the following best describes this study design? A. Factorial RCT B. Parallel RCT C. Adaptive RCT D. Cross-over RCT E. Group allocation RCT 7. Which of the following studies provides the highest level of evidence for the efficacy of a drug? A. Meta-analysis of cohort studies B. Expert opinion C. Randomized controlled trials D. Case-control study E. Systematic review of RCTs