See Also: confounding factor(medicine)
confounding(medicine)
sex factor(medicine)
factor E(medicine)
factor Gm(medicine)
X Factor(money)
factor I(medicine)
psi factor(medicine)
factor 3(medicine)
factor II(medicine)

Bircher (iou) and confounding factor (medicine)


Bircher (iou)



Bircher noun2. M20.
[John Birch, a USAF officer killed by Chinese Communists in 1945, 'the first casualty of the Cold War' + -ER1.]
A member or supporter of the John Birch Society, an extreme right-wing and anti-Communist American organization founded in 1958.

confounding factor (medicine)


confounding factor
<epidemiology> Factors that can cause or prevent the outcome of interest, are not intermediate variables, and are not associated with the factor(s) under investigation.

They give rise to situations in which the effects of two processes are not separated, or the contribution of causal factors cannot be separated, or the measure of the effect of exposure or risk is distorted because of its association with Other factors influencing the outcome of the study.