Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 6 EBP 0805 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Case-Control Studies
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The idea
A case-control study starts from the outcome: it compares people who have a condition with people who do not, looking backward for what differed.
In practice
Patients with a condition and matched patients without, compared on prior exposures.
Where people slip
Working backward is efficient for rare outcomes and exposes the design to recall bias by construction.
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