ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2005
Users' guide to the surgical literature. Case-control studies in surgical journals.
Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- How Often Do Orthopaedic Matched Case-Control Studies Use Matched Methods? A Review of Methodological Quality.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2019Pooled it
- [Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE): explanation and elaboration - a Korean translation].Ewha medical journal · 2024Article
- Publishing trends in World Journal of Pediatric Surgery.World journal of pediatric surgery · 2022Article
- Misclassification of Case-Control Studies in the Orthopedic Literature Is Common: A Bibliometric Analysis.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2020Article
- Evaluating psychiatric case-control studies using the STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational Studies in Epidemiology) statement.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2014Article
- Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE): explanation and elaboration.PLoS medicine · 2007Review
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionSome articles in surgical journals identify themselves as case-control studies, but their methods differ substantially from conventional epidemiologic case-control study (ECC) designs. Most of these studies appear instead to be retrospective cohort studies or comparisons of case series.
methodsWe identified all self-identified "case-control" studies published between 1995 and 2000 in 6 surgical journals, to determine the proportion that were true ECCs and to identify study characteristics associated with being true ECCs.
resultsOnly 19 out of 55 articles (35%) described true ECCs. More likely to be ECCs were those articles that reported "odds ratios" (ORs) (the OR for being an ECC if a study reported "ORs" compared with those reporting no "ORs" 15.3; 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.8-82.6) and whose methods included logistic regression analysis (OR 3.6, CI 1.0-12.9). Studies that focused on the evaluation of a surgical procedure were less likely to be ECCs (OR 0.2, CI 0.1-0.7) than other types of studies, such as those focusing on risk factors for disease.
conclusionsThe term "case-control study" is frequently misused in the surgical literature.
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