prognostic

(noun)

a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold

Related Terms

  • placebo effect
  • confounding variable
  • peer review

Examples of prognostic in the following topics:

  • Sources of Social Change

    • Prognostic frame: the movement organization frames the desirable solution to the problem
    • The prognostic frame is the desired solution - what people think will work to change the situation.
  • Confounding

    • Confounding by indication occurs when prognostic factors cause bias, such as biased estimates of treatment effects in medical trials.
    • Controlling for known prognostic factors may reduce this problem, but it is always possible that a forgotten or unknown factor was not included or that factors interact complexly.
  • Cancer Proteomics

    • (B) Prognostic - To forecast how aggressive a condition is, as in the case of determining a patient's ability to fare in the absence of treatment.
  • Disease Diagnosis

    • Diagnostic tests can also be used to provide prognostic information on people with established disease.
  • Social Movement Theories

    • Prognostic frame: the movement organization frames what is the desirable solution to the problem
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