Assessing validity of observational intervention studies – the Benchmarking Controlled Trials
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Assessing validity of observational intervention studies – the Benchmarking Controlled Trials
BACKGROUND Benchmarking Controlled Trial (BCT) is a concept which covers all observational studies aiming to assess impact of interventions or health care system features to patients and populations. AIMS To create and pilot test a checklist for appraising methodological validity of a BCT. METHODS The checklist was created by extracting the most essential elements from the comprehensive set...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0785-3890,1365-2060
DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2016.1186830