I was hoping you could help settle a dispute about the definitions of
cohort study and case series. If I have a group of all children in a
defined area with cardiac arrest and I follow them (retrospectively) to
look at outcomes (eg death), this is a cohort study, correct?
Julie Brown, MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow, box CH-04
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Seattle, WA 98105
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fax: 206 527 3892
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