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September 1, 1983Journal of the American Statistical Association2,382 citations

Case-Control Studies: Design, Conduct, Analysis.

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LYLee YoukelesJSJames J. Schlesselman

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore factors that may prevent or cause disease through a comparative analysis of cases and controls.
  • Retrospective study design comparing patients diagnosed with a specific disease (cases) to healthy individuals (controls).
  • Analysis focused on identifying potential risk factors associated with the disease.
  • Highlights the role of case-control studies in understanding disease causation.
  • Indicates the effectiveness of this method in establishing associations between factors and disease risk.

Abstract

Case-control studies, often called 'retrospective' studies, provide a research method for investigating factors that may prevent or cause disease. Basically the method involves comparison of patients (cases) with a group of controls that consists of persons who are free of the disease under study.

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Youkeles et al. (1983) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a07d3c35e9d1d45054abb92https://doi.org/10.2307/2288156
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