Bradford
Bradford (medical term)
Bradford (pronounced: brad-ford) is a term used in the medical field, particularly in the context of the Bradford Hill criteria, a group of minimal conditions necessary to provide adequate evidence of a causal relationship between an incidence and a consequence.
Etymology
The term is named after Sir Austin Bradford Hill, an English epidemiologist and statistician, who is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern medical statistics.
Related Terms
- Epidemiology: The study and analysis of the distribution, patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
- Statistician: A professional in the field of statistics who uses statistical methods to collect and analyze data and help solve real-world problems in business, engineering, healthcare, or other fields.
- Causal relationship: A cause-and-effect relationship, where one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect).
- Incidence (epidemiology): The occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or something else undesirable.
- Consequence (medicine): A result or effect of an action or condition in medicine.
Pronunciation
Bradford is pronounced as /ˈbræd.fərd/.
See Also
- Hill's criteria of causation: A group of nine criteria, established by Sir Austin Bradford Hill, that can be useful in establishing epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Bradford
- Wikipedia's article - Bradford
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