Urgent help; Quantitative research!

[Doctorrudigar]

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Hey guys,

I have a big assignment to hand in some time soon, and I'm having difficulty with properly understanding different forms of quantitative research for medical studies.

What I need to know is what sort of studies the following are (e.g. whether they're cohort studies, case series, case-control, etc.). It is very probable that there is a mixture here and not all of them are the same.

If you could reply with a list of the author(s) of each individual one along with what sort of study it is, i would be so grateful. I have attached the studies (there's 10 in total). One went over the file size for attachments, but it's:

.Wyllie E. (1998), Seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery in children and adolescents.
Source: Annals Of Neurology [Ann Neurol] 1998 Nov; Vol. 44 (5), pp. 740-8.

Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.410440507/pdf


Thank you so much for the help. It's been tricky knowing exactly what each one is but I suspect most are case series. I would appreciate any help so much, because this has been difficult for me and I've spent many hours trying to properly understand.

 

[Doctorrudigar]

someone please help *cries*

 

[Doctorrudigar]

🙁

 

[todds]

🙁

You're asking a lot from people on an online message board, i don't know what you think this place is...It shouldn't be too difficult to look up on Wikipedia, then apply the concept to your articles

 

[ArcGurren]

Is this a joke? If you've taken so much as an undergrad stats class you should be able to do this on your own

 

[Hoya2009]

They are all numbers studies about the biological functions that get counted.
🙂

hope that helps

 

[rbnsafsadgf]

I have a big assignment to hand in some time soon, and I'm having difficulty with properly understanding different forms of quantitative research for medical studies.

1) SDN isn't for homework help.

2) Check out Figure 1 from "An overview of clinical research: the lay of the land" David A Grimes, Kenneth F Schulz, The Lancet, Vol 359, January 5, 2002. It will walk you through how to think about the types of studies.

 

[Doctorrudigar]

You're asking a lot from people on an online message board, i don't know what you think this place is...It shouldn't be too difficult to look up on Wikipedia, then apply the concept to your articles

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time doing that. But the authors don't really comment on the designs of the studies properly, and neither does a lot of the literature that cites them. All they really say is whether they're retrospective studies or prospective studies or prospective controlled studies. I think the majority are case series, but it's difficult differentiating them because of the lack of information on their design.

I only resorted to coming on here after many hours of trying to figure it out. Since you guys are educated on this and I'm not, I thought I'd get some assistance. But heh.

Who would have thought medical students would be snobs?

 

[Doctorrudigar]

1) SDN isn't for homework help.

2) Check out Figure 1 from "An overview of clinical research: the lay of the land" David A Grimes, Kenneth F Schulz, The Lancet, Vol 359, January 5, 2002. It will walk you through how to think about the types of studies.

I take back my previous comment. Thank you so much for that!

 

[ShyRem]

SDN is not for homework help. Closing.