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Prospective Case-Control Study

A prospective case-control study embeds the case-control logic within a defined cohort followed forward in time. Cases are identified as they occur, rather than looked up in records after the fact, and controls are sampled from the same prospectively monitored base population. This forward-looking approach allows collection of exposure data before outcome ascertainment, reducing recall bias — the principal weakness of the classic retrospective case-control design — while retaining the efficiency gains of sampling controls rather than enrolling a full cohort.

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Rothman, K. J., Greenland, S., & Lash, T. L. (2008). Modern Epidemiology (3rd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. · ISBN 978-0781755641
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