First published: June 30, 2015

Last updated: April 22, 2024

Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation, Submission, and Manuscript Format: Retrospective Cohort Study

Retrospective Cohort Study articles are submitted by any author and describe a research study in which the medical records of groups of individuals who are alike in many ways but differ in a certain characteristic (for example, female nurses who smoke and those who do not smoke) are compared for a particular outcome (such as gastric cancer).

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