Question 1. Meta-analysis is used to accompany the results of a clinical trial.

True

False

Question 2. Randomized control trials can detect adverse events that occur in very few patients.

True

False

Question 3. Randomized control trials do not represent the average population.

True

False

Question 4. A controlled observational study:

Follows a group of healthy people with different levels of exposure and assesses what happens to their health over time.

Investigates the prior exposure of individuals with a particular health condition and those without it to infer why certain subjects develop disease.

Uses any standard epidemiologic design, simply selecting people with particular jobs or exposures as subjects.

Watches individuals to determine if they will develop disease, but requires that certain exposures are avoided.

Question 5. Which is true of meta-analysis and systematic review?

Meta-analysis and systematic review are two different types of review studies.

Meta-analysis is used in most systematic reviews.

Meta-analysis means 'to pool data' from several different studies.

Both A and B

None of the above

Question 6. A systematic review uses specific processes to combine, analyze, and interpret data.

True

False

Question 7. A meta-analysis can be completed on its own without a systematic review.

True

False

Question 8. Meta-analysis is a qualitative method for summarizing data.

True

False

Question 9. Meta-analysis results are most powerful when they utilize:

Randomized Control Trials

Case-Control Trials

Cohort studies

Occupational epidemiologic studies

Question 10. One way to improve a systematic review is to include unpublished studies in the analysis.

True

False