Revisiting the washout period in the incident user study design: why 6–12 months may not be sufficient
Author(s) -
Andrew W. Roberts,
Stacie B. Dusetzina,
Joel F. Farley
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of comparative effectiveness research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.567
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2042-6313
pISSN - 2042-6305
DOI - 10.2217/cer.14.53
Subject(s) - washout , medicine , retrospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , optics , physics
The purpose of this study was to describe how washout period duration affects the size and accuracy of retrospective incident user cohorts.
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