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Study of the effects of interventions is of central concern in prognostic clinical research; and experimental intervention-prognostic studies – clinical trials – are being held as paradigmatic for their non-experimental counterparts. We here expand this paradigm beyond the now-common type of focus in its objects, and then delineate the non-experimental alternatives to these. This we follow with rather extensive treatment, descriptive and also critical, of some carefully-chosen non-experimental studies on the effect that was the focus of the principal effectiveness concern in the trial we’ve extensively addressed in the preceding two Chapters.
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Miettinen, O.S., Steurer, J., Hofman, A. (2019). Non-experimental Intervention-Prognostic Studies. In: Clinical Research Transformed. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06176-0_21
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