What was your question again? Types of medical studies.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23769154.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1053/j.jfas.2013.06.002.
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Abstract
Medical literature comes in all shapes and sizes, from animal studies to prospective clinical trials to retrospective chart reviews. In all of these cases, it is worth asking: What are the intellectual goals of the study: description, hypothesis testing, or hypothesis generating? This differentiation can help shape our view of the success or failure of the scientific effort.
Medical subject headings
- Clinical Trials as Topic
- Epidemiologic Studies