Definitions for "RETROSPECTIVE STUDY"
A retrospective study is a study that looks backwards in time. When we study a disease that takes a long time to appear, we may need to use a retrospective study. A retrospective study may be one in which doctors examine the medical charts of patients that have a disease to find out if certain medications had any effect on them - they were treated in the past and therefore, the doctors are studying the patients retrospectively.
A study that investigates what happened when a certain treatment was given by looking backwards in time at treated individuals.
A study that looks back in time.
Research that relies on recall of past data or on previously recorded information. Often, this type of research is considered to have limitations because the number of variables cannot be controlled - and because people’s memories are fallible.
Research that relies on recall of past data, or on previously recorded information. Often this type of research is considered to have limitations, because the number of variables that cannot be controlled, and because memory is not infallible.
Examination of characteristics of people that were subject to a disease.