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AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2021
Editor's note: This is the seventh article in a series on clinical research by nurses. The series is designed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to participate in research, step by step. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice—from research design to data interpretation.
Bernadette, Capili, Joyce K, Anastasi
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Editor's note: This is the seventh article in a series on clinical research by nurses. The series is designed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to participate in research, step by step. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice—from research design to data interpretation.
Bernadette, Capili, Joyce K, Anastasi
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Evolution of the Cohort Study [PDF]
The occurrence of events over time unifies epidemiologic research. Regardless of the study hypothesis and design, the disease-causing actions of exposures and modifying factors are formulated as antecedent to the occurrence of the outcome. All study designs inherently acknowledge time and represent alternative approaches for sampling populations as ...
Alvaro Muñoz, Jonathan M. Samet
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Hospital Medicine, 2000
Cohort studies allow an exploration of patient change over time. They can provide information on the incidence of disease, prognosis (including patient satisfaction) and likely health-care resource use. Nonetheless, bias can be present in cohort studies in the way patients are selected and followed-up, the way measures are taken, or the way data are ...
Iain K. Crombie, Huw Davies
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Cohort studies allow an exploration of patient change over time. They can provide information on the incidence of disease, prognosis (including patient satisfaction) and likely health-care resource use. Nonetheless, bias can be present in cohort studies in the way patients are selected and followed-up, the way measures are taken, or the way data are ...
Iain K. Crombie, Huw Davies
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The Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study: When is a cohort study not a cohort design?
Nutrition & Dietetics, 2010AbstractAims: The paper describes how a variety of different epidemiological study designs can be applied to data arising from a single prospective study.Methods: An overview of the data collection phases of the Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study is given.
Susan M Sayers +3 more
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Cohort studies: History of the method II. Retrospective cohort studies [PDF]
The term "cohort study" was introduced by Frost in 1935 to describe a study that compared the disease experience of people born at different periods, in particular the sex and age specific incidence of tuberculosis and the method was extended to the study of non-communicable disease by Korteweg who used it 20 years later to analyse the epidemic of lung
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2015
Abstract The simplest cohort design is to obtain exposure data at baseline and follow up individuals to obtain data up to the point when the event of interest occurs. A richer design includes regularly scheduled visits at which data on exposures are updated. The exposures can be either fixed over time (e.g.
Alvaro Muñoz, F. Javier Nieto
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Abstract The simplest cohort design is to obtain exposure data at baseline and follow up individuals to obtain data up to the point when the event of interest occurs. A richer design includes regularly scheduled visits at which data on exposures are updated. The exposures can be either fixed over time (e.g.
Alvaro Muñoz, F. Javier Nieto
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CORRELATES OF EMPLOYMENT: A COHORT STUDY
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2001Employment is often viewed as a potent indicator of substance abuse treatment outcome. This study was conducted to determine if personality and/or demographic characteristics of a cohort of unemployed substance dependent persons presenting for addiction treatment might predict employment 9 months postadmission.
Sterling, Robert C. +5 more
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