Epidemiological Methods and Measurements
Compare and contrast epidemiological methods of research; case-control and cohort study methods. Select either the case-control or cohort study method and compare its features, the methodology, to a randomized controlled trial using the following questions. Please format, organize, your responses using each question below:
1. What is the fundamental difference between the method you have chosen (either the case-control or cohort method) and the randomized controlled trial?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the study method you chose (case-control or cohort study)?
3. What are the characteristics of a correlational study?
4. Where does the method you chose (case-control or cohort study) fall on the research pyramid? What does where it is on the research pyramid mean?
Please include a minimum of two (2) scholarly articles from the last five (5) years.
*Scholarly source: U.S. based peer reviewed journals geared for clinicians (MD/DO/NP/PA) published in the past five years of the latest edition of a clinical practice guideline.
All scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles must be current – within a 5-year time frame
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