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Case control study
Disadvantages
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Retrospective studies
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Problems with data quality
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Risk exposure assessment: risk of recall bias.
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Not good for evaluating diagnostic tests
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Clear that the cases have the condition and the controls
do not
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Difficult to find a suitable control group
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Incidence (absolute risk) cannot be obtained