Answer the following True or False Questions:

A. Confounding is the process of selecting controls so that they are similar to certain case attributes such as age, sex, or socioeconomic status.

B. A hospital’s “participation in a multispecialty surgical registry” (a Medicare Hospitals Compare measure) is an outcome measure.

C. A hospital’s “Incidence of potentially preventable blood clots” (a Medicare Hospitals Compare measure) is an outcome measure.

D. Recent studies showing that screening women under 40 is not cost-effective are an example of Effectiveness.

E. Current tests of Ebola vaccines among groups of health care workers in Africa are an example of Efficacy.

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