Deep Breathing Time Again… We’re about to seek the answer to another of the numbers that health and medical professionals use daily from statistics. Are you ready? Here it goes… What does Prevalence Rate in Statistics Mean? The prevalence rate is the total number of cases of a disease in a specific population divided by the total number of people...
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Ready to play Hide and Seek? Or are you just ready to hide? Most people feel like hiding when faced with the numbers that health and medical professionals use daily, statistics. So we’re going to start slowly and cover different mathematical concepts you might have heard. This will be a series of posts so if there are any math concepts that you...
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Not with these trials. Clinical trials are scientific studies conducted to discover improved ways to treat, prevent, diagnose or screen for diseases. Clinical trials are either observational or interventional. Observational trials are like longitudinal studies. Interventional trials are the ones in which individuals are assigned to control or...
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OR: What the heck does this mean and why should I care? As you do your own “research” to find information you care about, you’ll stumble upon several types of scientific or medical research designs out there. And there are big differences in what can be learned from them. Here are some of the most common types of research you’ll see: Case...
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“Do you suffer from epitaxis?” When doctors use difficult words to describe common problems, like nose bleeds, it can be distressing for patients. Why do doctors do this? Imagine going to college for four years, working exclusively on science and math. Then, throughout the four years in medical school, they learn a whole new language. Upon...
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