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Cross-sectional studies

American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 2014
Across-sectional study is an observational study in which the exposure and the outcome are determined at the same time point for each study participant. Cross-sectional studies comprise the simplest individual-level observational study design and are usually relatively inexpensive and easy to conduct compared with case-control or cohort studies.
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Cross-Sectional Studies

2011
Cross-sectional studies are related to sample surveys. In both types of studies a sample S is taken from the target population U, for example by one of the sampling plans presented in Sect. 12.2. The basic difference between the two studies resides in their purpose and, consequently, in the way they are being evaluated. As remarked in Sect.
Klaus Krickeberg   +2 more
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Allergic conjunctivitis: a cross‐sectional study

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 2015
SummaryBackgroundOcular allergy is a common disease in daily practice.ObjectivesA cross‐sectional study was conducted to evaluate clinical aspects of and therapeutic approaches to ocular allergy in Italy.MethodsOf the 3685 patients affected by ocular allergy and enrolled by 304 ophthalmologists nationally, 3545 were eligible to be included in the ...
LEONARDI, ANDREA   +6 more
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Cross sectional studies

BMJ, 2010
Researchers investigated public perception, anxiety, and behaviour with regard to the outbreak of swine flu.1 A cross sectional survey was used, with random dialling of telephone numbers in England, Scotland, and Wales. In total, 997 adults aged over 18 years—who had heard of swine flu and spoke English—were interviewed between 8 May and 12 May 2009 ...
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Cross-sectional studies

2015
Abstract This chapter will first describe the uses of cross-sectional studies in epidemiological and public health research and then discuss methodological issues concerning the design, the main biases of these studies including response rates, and how to improve participation.
Manolis Kogevinas, Leda Chatzi
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The Cross-Sectional Study

2010
In a cross-sectional study, all in a given population or a random sample from this population define the source population. The disease and its possible determinants are all recorded at a given point in time. This introduces a temporal ambiguity in the possible cause–effect association and for this reason most cross-sectional studies have survey ...
Kaare Christensen   +3 more
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Cross-Sectional Studies

2009
1. Cross-sectional studies measure the exposure and the outcome at the same time. 2. Cross-sectional studies estimate the prevalence of a disease or condition. 3. Cross-sectional studies cannot establish a temporal relationship between the exposure and the outcome.
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