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	Σχεδιασμός Μελέτης Κοόρτης	Τυχαιοποιημένη Ελεγχόμενη Δοκιμή (ΤΕΔ)
Πεδίο	Κλινική Έρευνα	Πειραματικός Σχεδιασμός
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Hypothesis test
Έτος προέλευσης	1970s-1980s	1948
Δημιουργός	Donald Acheson, Olli Miettinen, and others in modern epidemiology	James Lind (early precursor, 1747); modern formulation: Austin Bradford Hill & Medical Research Council (1948)
Τύπος	Research Design	Interventional comparative study
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Miettinen, O. S. (1976). Estimability and estimation in case-referent studies. American Journal of Epidemiology, 103(2), 226–235.	Schulz, K.F., Altman, D.G., Moher, D., for the CONSORT Group (2010). CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomised Trials. BMJ, 340, c332.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	prospective study, follow-up study, longitudinal study, cohort study	RCT, randomised controlled trial, clinical trial, Randomize Kontrollü Çalışma (RCT) Tasarımı
Συναφείς	2	7
Σύνοψη	A cohort study follows a group of individuals forward in time from exposure to outcome. Exposed and unexposed participants (or participants with differing exposure levels) are enrolled at baseline, characterized, and observed prospectively until the outcome occurs or the study ends. Cohort studies are fundamental to epidemiology and are the design of choice for establishing causal associations when randomized trials are infeasible or unethical.	A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the gold standard experimental design in clinical and health research, in which participants are randomly allocated to a treatment group or a control group so that the effect of an intervention can be measured with the highest possible degree of internal validity. The modern parallel-group RCT was formalized by Austin Bradford Hill and the Medical Research Council in their landmark streptomycin trial of 1948, and its reporting is governed today by the CONSORT 2010 guidelines (Schulz et al., 2010).