Case-Referent Study:

Terms Related to Case-Referent Study

• Epidemiological Study

  Studies designed to examine associations, commonly, hypothesized causal relations. They are usually concerned with identifying or measuring the effects of risk factors or exposures. The ...

• Case Mix

  A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length ...

• Crossover Study

  Studies comparing two or more treatments or interventions in which the subjects or patients, upon completion of the course of one treatment, are switched to ...

• Prosthesis

  Artificial substitutes for body parts, and materials inserted into tissue for functional, cosmetic, or therapeutic purposes. Prostheses can be functional, as in the case of ...