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A desirable characteristic of a statistic that estimates a population parameter, meaning that its variance or standard deviation is less than that of another statistic; ie, the sample mean ( ) has a smaller standard deviation than the median, although both are estimators of the population mean .
Industry:Health care
* The actual results of interventions involving drug therapies.
* Can have characteristics that are economic (i.e., cost), social/behavioral (i.e., patient preferences), or physiological and clinical (i.e., laboratory values, signs and symptoms. )
Industry:Health care
(between X and Y) A relationship indicating that X and Y vary together according to constant increments.
Industry:Health care
* A standard set of activities undertaken by all patient care practitioners.
* The systematic activities that occur when a practitioner provides pharmaceutical care to a patient, consisting of the assessment, care plan, and follow-up evaluation.
* A process that allows the practitioner to make rational, well-reasoned, and evidence-based decisions.
Industry:Health care
A multivariate test used to test the significance of the overall results from a logistic regression analysis.
Industry:Health care
A measurement of the range of data values (i.e., variability) about the mean. Variance is the square of the standard deviation.
Industry:Health care
* The sum of all the events in a patient's lifetime that relate to drug therapy.
* The patient's personal experience with medications.
* The lived experience that includes a patient's attitudes, beliefs, preferences, concerns, expectations and medication taking behavior.
* Includes the patient's expression of the experience, the patient's medication history, and the patient's current medication record.
Industry:Health care
A common unit for measuring person-time; one person-year corresponds to one person being followed for one year, or alternatively, two persons each followed for one half year, and so forth.
Industry:Health care
A group of individuals from various disciplines (e. G. , laypeople, physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and clergy) who evaluate protocols for clinical studies to assess risks to the research participants and benefits to society. Approval of a local IRB (i.e., an IRB located in the community in which the study is to be conducted) is necessary prior to initiation of a clinical study involving patients.
Industry:Health care
A frequency distribution of a random variable, which may be empirical or theoretical (eg, normal, binomial).
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