Epistemology and the World of Neurosurgery Research

Esene et  al,1 in their brilliantly conceived and presented manuscript, “Misclassification of Case Control Studies in Neurosurgery and Proposed Solutions,” raise very good and valid points about the misclassification of published research manuscripts and potential harm done by the mislabeling or misrepr esentation of manuscript content. They eloquently demonstrate that, although many studies have been published with the inclusion of “case control study” in the title or methodology to describe the study design, often such studies are not “case control studies” but rather “cohort studies” and, as such, mislead the unsophisticated reader (as, oh so many of us fall into this category of “unsophisticated readers”).
Source: World Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Tags: Editor's Letter Source Type: research