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We live in the era of evidence-based medicine where “true believers” tend to disregard anything but randomized clinical trials (RCTs) even when assessing the impact of any intervention or diagnostic procedure. However, there are several shortcomings in RCTs, for instance the ability to assess long-term effects and rare outcomes. (Randomized trials are described in Chap. 9.)
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Olsen, J., Christensen, K., Murray, J., Ekbom, A. (2010). Descriptive Epidemiology in Clinical Epidemiology. In: An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals. Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1497-2_7
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