Assignment
A Case Series study
Read the "Question 1 article.pdf", and answer the following questions.
Jacobs, M., Aarons, E., Bhagani, S., Buchanan, R., Cropley, I., Hopkins, S., ... & Rodger, A. (2015). Post-exposure prophylaxis against Ebola virus disease with experimental antiviral agents: a case-series of health-care workers. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 15(11), 1300-1304.
I. What's the purpose of this study? And is to examine what?
II. Using the EDP (Exposure, Disease, Population) model. describe the Exposure, the Disease, and the Population of this study. You are also required to explain what E, D, and P stand for.
III. How was this data collected in this study?
IV. What are the results of this study?
V. What conclusion can you draw from reading this study?
A Cross-sectional study
Read the "Question 2 article.pdf", and answer the following questions.
Gingold, D. B., Pierre-Mathieu, R., Cole, B., Miller, A. C., & Khaldun, J. S. (2017). Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on emergency department high utilizers with ambulatory care sensitive conditions: A cross-sectional study. The American journal of emergency medicine, 35(5), 737-742.
I. What is the problem with Emergency Department "Super-Users'? Answer it from this article.
II. What is the purpose of this study?
III. How was the data collected in this study?
IV. What is the study population of this study?
V. In the Results section, there is this one sentence saying "The OR of high utilizer having an ACSC diagnosis was 1.66 in 2013...". Use your word, avoid using the term "OR", odds ratio, and the specific OR number, rewrite this statement. Hint: I will start for you: The likelihood of ....... Is ..... than ......
VI. Looking at Table 4, I found that the OR for high utilizers having angina 2014 (after Medicaid expansion) was 0.99, which is basically 1. What does "having a OR of 1" mean?
VII. In the Conclusion, there is this sentence "In the year after Medicaid expansion, there was an overall increase in ED utilization at our center, while there was a small but statistically significant reduction in the proportion of ED patients that were high utilizers or visited for ACSC related diagnoses". Briefly explain the meaning of the sentence in quotes.
VIII. If you were to make a literature review, how should you refer to this article in your writing?