Overview of study designs

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• Format Lessons
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education
• EBM Stage 2 - Finding the evidence, 3 - Appraising evidence
• Duration <5 mins
• Difficulty Intermediate

Key Concepts addressed

• Check the evidence from treatment comparisons
• 2-3d Fair comparisons with few people or outcome events can be misleading
• 2-1d People should not know which treatment they get
• 1-2e Comparisons are needed to identify treatment effects
• 1-2f Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons

Details

11 slides and a 4-min commentary overviewing study designs for clinical research. (from Univ Mass Med School).

An e-Learning module in Study Design

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