Question 78 · LDEK · Characteristics of scientific studies

Clinical control trial is:

1) relatively easy to perform and cheap;
2) retrospective;
3) used for analysis of rare diseases;
4) used for testing the hypothesis;
5) used for calculating the odds ratio;
6) used for calculating the hazard ratio.
Correct answer is:
  1. A. only 6.
  2. B. 5,6.
  3. C. 4,5,6.
  4. D. 3,4,5,6.
  5. E. 1,2,3,4,5.
Hint

A case-control study starts from the outcome and looks back at exposure; ask which measure needs known incidence in exposed groups.

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