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Fatality / Mortality Calculations in an Outbreak
There are a number of different types of rates, risks,
Fatality / Mortality Calculations ... outbreak: - Case ... # of deaths in cases ... MortalityRate #Calculations ... #Outbreak #Calculating
Specificity Calculation - Probability that a test correctly identifies those without the disease (true negative rate)

Specificity
Specificity Calculation ... Biostatistics #statistics ... Epidemiology #Equations #calculations
Sensitivity Calculation - Probability that a test correctly identifies those with the disease (true positive rate)

Sensitivity
Sensitivity Calculation ... Biostatistics #statistics ... Epidemiology #Equations #calculations
Positive Predictive Value Calculation - Probability that someone with a positive test actually has the disease

Positive
Predictive Value Calculation ... Biostatistics #statistics ... Epidemiology #Equations #calculations
Negative Predictive Value Calculation - Probability that someone with a negative test truly does not have
Predictive Value Calculation ... Biostatistics #statistics ... Epidemiology #Equations #calculations
Basophilia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Basophils < 1% of the total white blood cell count
Basophils function similarly
Statistical ... - Basophils + circulating ... Chickenpox Other Causes ... Differential #Diagnosis #causes
Important Biostatistics and Epidemiology Equations

Sensitivity = TP / (TP + FN) = true positives / disease
Biostatistics #statistics ... Epidemiology #Equations #calculations
Causes of Nausea and Vomiting - Differential Algorithm #Diagnosis #EM #IM #Causes #Nausea #Vomiting #Differential #NonGI
Causes of Nausea ... - Differential Algorithm ... Diagnosis #EM #IM #Causes ... #Nausea #Vomiting ... Differential #NonGI #Algorithm
Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as
correctly diagnose a case ... that any given case ... NegativePredictiveValue #Calculation ... NPV #Formulas #Statistics
Simplified Approach to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
1) IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? 
Is there a dialysis indication
Low effective circulating ... PROBLEM ~80% of AKI cases ... are caused by prerenal ... CONSIDER INTRINSIC CAUSES ... for WBCs, RBCs, casts