Select all of the responses which are correct Which of the following is/are true
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Question
Select all of the responses which are correct
Which of the following is/are true/correct regarding the Austin Bradford Hill’s criteria:
a. They are applied to make judgments about the likelihood of causality between an exposure and a disease.
b. They include strength, temporality and dose-response.
c. They should be considered hard-and-fast rules.
d. A causal relationship is frequently inferred when a strong association is present, even in the absence of a credible biological mechanism to explain the association.
Explanation / Answer
Ans:
Option a,b is correct.
Explanation:
Austin Bradford Hill’s criteria is a set of nine criteria to provide epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect