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| What is biologic plausibility? | Technology assessment which asks the question: Does the relationship make sense, given what we know about biology and the mechanisms of health and disease? |
| Research studies designed to test the safety and/or effectiveness of drugs, devices, treatments, or preventive measures in humans are called: | Clinical trials |
| Medical test(s) to determine cause of an injury or condition: | Diagnostic tests |
| A measure of performance in a normal clinical setting (studies in heterogeneous populations by ordinary practitioners under conditions of routine clinical care): | Effectiveness |
| Refers to performance of technology under ideal, controlled conditions (studied in homogeneous populations under ideal testing conditions by experts): | Efficacy |
| Sleeping sickness (an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness): | Encephalitis lethargica |
| (Levodopa); a drug used to alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (see below), particularly trembling, rigidity, and slow movements: | L-dopa |
| Littenberg’s Patient outcomes: | Assessment which asks the question: Are patients better off for having used the new technology? |
| Littenberg’s Societal outcomes: | It asks the question: What are the costs & ethical implications of the technology? |
| Test(s) given to members of defined population, not necessarily at risk for a disease, to identify those individuals who are more likely to be helped than harmed by further tests to diagnose the disease: | Medical screening test(s) |
| Interventional tests, which prevents a patient from developing disease: | Preventative medicine |
| Therapeutic process of restoring skills, which were lost due to injury or illness: | Rehabilitation |
| A likelihood that is based on whether the proposed measures and actions can be implemented with commercially available skills, equipment and materials, taking into consideration prevailing local factors such as climate, geography, demography, infrastructure, security, governance, capacity and operational reliability: | Technical feasibility |
| What is technology assessment? | The study & evaluation of new technologies |
| What is therapeutic medicine? | Health intervention to treat & possible cure or reduce symptoms of injury or disease |
