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Advantages of case control studies

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These include:

  • convenient sample frame
  • quick and relatively cheap
  • able to screen for a wide possible range of factors
  • able to test current preliminary aetiological hypotheses
  • it's the only way to investigate very rare disease or rare adverse effects of drugs

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