Challenges in designing a retrospective cohort study to assess the clinical impact of a diagnostic test in a setting where alternative diagnostic modalities exist / Elif E. Gultekin-Elbir, Mehmet R. Genç.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gultekin-Elbir, Elif E., author.

Genç, Mehmet R., author.

Series:

SAGE Research Methods Cases : Medicine and Health.

SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical screening--Case studies.

Medical screening.

Pregnancy--Case studies.

Pregnancy.

Cohort analysis--Case studies.

Cohort analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020.

Summary:

The observational study is one of the commonly used types of study designs to answer questions or evaluate relationships between variables. Depending on the outcome determination, the observational study can be case control, cross-sectional, or cohort study. In our research, we designed that study as a retrospective cohort study to evaluate whether incorporation of amniotic fluid analysis into clinical assessment may improve clinical outcomes in pregnancies suspected of clinical chorioamnionitis. This study could have been designed either as a retrospective or prospective cohort study. We present why we chose the retrospective cohort design to find an answer to our research question. Besides discussing advantages and red flags (like confounding and bias-related errors) of that study type, we explain how we conducted this study, including the type of analysis we used, while dealing with these challenges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5297-4272-2

9781529742725

OCLC:

1162302250