Increases in the availability of routine health data, and the ability to store, process, link, access and analyse large amounts of data represent a major opportunity for conducting studies on the ...

Observational studies are critical tools in clinical research and public health response, but challenges arise in ensuring the data produced by these studies are scientifically robust and socially ...

A comparative study that lacks the randomisation component should not also lag behind in other rigorous requirements that are customarily expected of randomised studies. The value of the scientific ...

The Galleri-Medicare study called REACH (R eal-world E vidence to A dvance Multi- C ancer Early Detection H ealth Equity) is a non-randomized, observational study of 50,000 Medicare beneficiaries.

- observational studies that either did not use or were unclear about how they used methods to account for population characteristics that can have an impact on the effectiveness of an intervention ...

It is axiomatic that the methodological strength of an observational study is best judged by how well the study design captures the methodological strengths of the corresponding RCT of the same topic.

Cohort studies are a type of research design. They are also called longitudinal studies because they follow groups of people over time. Results from cohort studies can help people understand human ...