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SUBMITTER: Harris AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1380192 | biostudies-other | 2006 Jan-Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Harris Anthony D AD McGregor Jessina C JC Perencevich Eli N EN Furuno Jon P JP Zhu Jingkun J Peterson Dan E DE Finkelstein Joseph J
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 20051012 1
Quasi-experimental study designs, often described as nonrandomized, pre-post intervention studies, are common in the medical informatics literature. Yet little has been written about the benefits and limitations of the quasi-experimental approach as applied to informatics studies. This paper outlines a relative hierarchy and nomenclature of quasi-experimental study designs that is applicable to medical informatics intervention studies. In addition, the authors performed a systematic review of tw ...[more]