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Case-Control Studies

"Case-Control Studies" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Comparisons that start with the identification of persons with the disease or outcome of interest and a control (comparison, referent) group without the disease or outcome of interest. The relationship of an attribute is examined by comparing both groups with regard to the frequency or levels of outcome over time.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Case-Control Studies" by people in this website by year, and whether "Case-Control Studies" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 1331 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 101 publications in 2012
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