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HSC 276: Clinical Epidemiology: Finding Primary Research

Databases

Types of Primary Research

Clinical Trial: A work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions so that researchers can evaluate the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes.

Observational Study: A work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions, but the investigator does not assign participants to specific interventions.

Case-control and Cohort studies are examples of observational studies. A case-control study is a primary research method that compares people with a condition to people without it. A cohort study is a research study that follows a group of people over time to see if a specific characteristic is linked to a health outcome.

Randomized Control Trial: A work that reports on a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process.

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Finding Journal Articles When You Have A Citation

Search by journal title to access the catalog record. The record lists the database(s) and years the journal is available electronically as well information on print and microforms holdings.

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