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What is meant by bias in study design?

A situation in a trial where one outcome is systematically favoured

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What is Selection bias?

Error in assigning individuals to groups leading to differences which may influence the outcome

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What is Recall bias?

Difference in the accuracy of the recollections retrieved by study participants, possibly due to whether they have disorder or not

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What is Publication bias?

Failure to publish results from valid studies, often as they showed a negative or uninteresting result.

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What is Work-up bias/verification bias?

clinicians may be reluctant to order the gold standard test unless the new test is positive, as the gold standard test may be invasive

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What is Expectation bias?

Observers may subconsciously measure or report data in a way that favours the expected study outcome

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What is the Hawthorne effect?

Describes a group changing it's behaviour due to the knowledge that it is being studied

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What is Late-look bias?

Gathering information at an inappropriate time

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What is Procedure bias?

Occurs when subjects in different groups receive different treatment

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What is Lead-time bias?

where early diagnosis of a disease falsely makes it look like people are surviving longer

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