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Retrospective Cohort Study

A retrospective cohort study assembles a group of individuals who share a common starting point and reconstructs their exposure history and subsequent outcomes entirely from pre-existing records. Because the data have already been collected before the study begins, the design is far faster and cheaper than a prospective cohort; however, the researcher must work with whatever information was recorded at the time rather than collecting purpose-built measurements.

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

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Taxonomic bucketCase-control studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCohort Studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCross-sectional epidemiological studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketNested case-controlmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketProspective Cohort Studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySurvival Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.