GP - general practice - háziorvos
cohort- kohorsz

Mielőtt bárki szólna, hogy ez a szó nem magyaros (magyar/magyar eredetű/hungarikum/idegen/angol eredetű), én kifejezetten tiltakozom az ellen az elmélet ellen, hogy minden áron magyarosítani kellene a különböző szakterületek szakzsargonját. Főleg nem az orvosi szakzsargont. Szeretném kihangsúlyozni, hogy itt kifejezetten nagy tévedés lenne, ha megpróbálnánk más nevet találni a kohorsz szakkifejezésnek. NEM CSOPORT-ot jelent, mivel ez egy cohort study, ami szintén nem csoportos vizsgálat hanem kohorsz vizsgálat. Ez a hivatalos statisztikai neve.

"A cohort study or panel study is a form of longitudinal study (a type of observational study) used in medicine, social science, actuarial science, and ecology. It is an analysis of risk factors and follows a group of people who do not have the disease, and uses correlations to determine the absolute risk of subject contraction. It is one type of clinical study design and should be compared with a cross-sectional study. Cohort studies are largely about the life histories of segments of populations, and the individual people who constitute these segments.[1][2] "

Ez a pontos eredeti angol szöveg, amiben ott van az is, hogy cohort study:

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/196/1/13.full

This study compares the relative rank and magnitude of risk factors in the onset of and recovery from depression using data collected from a general practice cohort.

Method

Hazard ratios for onset and recovery were estimated for 39 risk factors from a cohort study of 10 045 general practice attendees whose depression status was assessed at baseline, 6 and 12 months.

Tehát a lényeg, hogy házorvosi kohorszból gyűjtötték össze az adatokat a kohorsz vizsgálathoz.



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A cohort is a group of people who share a common characteristic or experience within a defined period (e.g., are born, are exposed to a drug or vaccine or pollutant, or undergo a certain medical procedure). Thus a group of people who were born on a day or in a particular period, say 1948, form a birth cohort. The comparison group may be the general population from which the cohort is drawn, or it may be another cohort of persons thought to have had little or no exposure to the substance under investigation, but otherwise similar. Alternatively, subgroups within the cohort may be compared with each other.