Timeline for Name of study design for 2 samples measured at different times
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| Nov 12, 2020 at 21:26 | comment | added | adejames2000 | @JamesStanley That is right, naming the study design help to put a lot of things in better perspective. | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 21:23 | comment | added | adejames2000 | @DianaPetitti, that seems to explain it. Thank you. | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 22:16 | comment | added | James Stanley | @adejames2000 -- that's all good, I appreciate my comment didn't address your direct question (hence a comment rather than an answer). My comment point was that most of the utility in naming a study design is in what this tells us as researchers/readers about the pros/cons of that design and how to deal with them (i.e. the design name is shorthand for what to consider when drawing conclusions based on that evidence) | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 16:36 | comment | added | Diana Petitti | @adejames2000 This paper discusses quasi-experimental designs in the evaluation of interventions for infectious disease. academic.oup.com/cid/article/38/11/1586/285372 | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 15:42 | comment | added | adejames2000 | @JamesStanley, I appreciate your contribution. I do agree that from a statistical point of view, there are concerns for confounding and bias, however, I am not focusing of the statistical ramifications at this moment. I am more focused on the design, which I have seen in a few study set-ups particularly healthcare but haven't been able to pinpoint its appropriate study design name. | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 2:01 | comment | added | James Stanley | This is a useful framing: one advantage of "naming" study designs is to think about their common sources of bias. Here the gold standard design would be a randomised controlled trial (RCT) for the two treatments; having a before-after design that is separated on treatment opens up questions of confounding and influence from broader contextual factors (e.g. admission procedures for in-patient vs. community treatment) | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 1:36 | history | answered | user215517 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |