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What is prognosis?
1. the expected course of a disease
2. the patients chance of recovery (remission, improvement and etc)
What is the hierarchy of research designs that give the best information?
1. Randomized controlled clinical trials/classical experiments
2. cohort studies
3. case-control studies
4. population-based descriptive studies
5. case report/case series
Name measures of prognosis.
- Case-fatality rate (proportion of cases who die); likelihood of death

- 5-year survival rate

- Observed survival [survival curves; life table analysis; Kaplan-Meier survival curves]

- Median survival time

- Relative survival rate [Log-rank tests; Cox Proportional Hazards analysis]
What are joint probabilities?
the probability that 2 or more events will occur simultaneously