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Case-Control Studies: Design, Conduct, Analysis.
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Empirical Case StudyRetrospective Cohort StudyPreventive MedicineCase ManagementClinical EpidemiologyManagementClinical StudiesCase StudyCase SeriesResearch MethodCase AnalysisPublic HealthMedicineEffectiveness ResearchEpidemiologyCase-control Studies
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.