Medical Definition of Case-control study

1. A study in which the risk factors of people with a disease are compared with those without a disease. It is an epidemiological method that begins by identifying persons with the disease or condition of interest (the cases) and compares their past history of exposure to identified or suspected risk factors with the past history of similar exposures among persons who resemble the cases but do not have the disease or condition of interest (the controls). The relationship of an attribute to the disease can therefore be examined by comparing affected and non-affected individuals with regard to the frequency or levels of the attribute in each group. (05 May 2002)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Case-control Study

cascara buckthorn
cascara sagrada
cascaras
cascarilla
cascarilla bark
cascarillas
cascarillin
caschrom
caschroms
casco
cascos
case
case-book
case-books
case-by-case
case-control study (current term)
case-fatality proportion
case-hardened
case-hardened steel
case-hardening
case-insensitive
case-sensitive
case-sensitivity
case-shot
case-to-infection proportion
case-to-infection ratio
case agreement
case and point
case badge
case book

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