Journal article
The use and interpretation of quasi-experimental studies in infectious diseases
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Vol.38(11), pp.1586-1591
06/01/2004
DOI: 10.1086/420936
PMID: 15156447
Abstract
Quasi-experimental study designs, sometimes called nonrandomized, pre-post-intervention study designs, are ubiquitous in the infectious diseases literature, particularly in the area of interventions aimed at decreasing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Little has been written about the benefits and limitations of the quasi-experimental approach. This article outlines a hierarchy of quasi-experimental study design that is applicable to infectious diseases studies and that, if applied, may lead to sounder research and more-convincing causal links between infectious diseases interventions and outcomes.
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- Title: Subtitle
- The use and interpretation of quasi-experimental studies in infectious diseases
- Creators
- George M Eliopoulos (Author)Anthony D Harris - Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. aharris@epi.umaryland.eduDouglas D BradhamMona BaumgartenIlene H ZuckermanJeffrey C FinkEli N Perencevich
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Vol.38(11), pp.1586-1591
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1086/420936
- PMID
- 15156447
- ISSN
- 1058-4838
- eISSN
- 1537-6591
- Grant note
- K23 AI01752-01A1 / NIAID NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2004
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983779498802771
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