Observational Studies as Topic
"Observational Studies as Topic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Works about clinical studies in which participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions, but the investigator does not assign participants to specific interventions (as in an interventional study).
| Descriptor ID |
D064887
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.760.250.750 N05.715.360.775.088.750 N06.850.520.450.250.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2014 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2015 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2018 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2019 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2020 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2025 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Observational Studies as Topic" by people in Profiles.
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Influences on and prevention of self-harm behavior among the most at-risk adolescents: study protocol for the SH-MARA prospective longitudinal cohort study. BMC Psychiatry. 2025 Oct 07; 25(1):943.
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Evaluating the Implementation Success of an Intensity-Adapted Guideline for Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Malawi: An Observational-Implementation Study Protocol. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Nov; 72(11):e32005.
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Outcomes of Palliative Care in Extracorporeal Life Support: A Systematic Review. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2025 Dec; 70(6):613-626.
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Racial Disparities in Parkinson Disease Clinical Phenotype, Management, and Genetics: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Apr 07; 14:e60587.
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Protocol for a multisite, observational clinical study of the association between skin colour and pulse oximeter accuracy in children undergoing cardiac catheterisation (PACH study). BMJ Open. 2025 Apr 05; 15(4):e100391.
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Let the resident try: Evaluation of central venous catheter placement in patients with hypotensive trauma using trauma video review. Surgery. 2025 05; 181:109215.
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Puberty and NeuroDevelopment in adolescents (PANDA): a study protocol. BMC Pediatr. 2024 Nov 26; 24(1):768.
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Imaging-guided PCI improves outcomes in patients with multivessel disease a meta-analysis of randomized and observational trials comparing treatment of ACS. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2025 Jun; 75:84-89.
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Misstatements, misperceptions, and mistakes in controlling for covariates in observational research. Elife. 2024 May 16; 13.
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Response letter to "Some common, fatal flaws in systematic reviews of observational studies". Fertil Steril. 2024 Aug; 122(2):391.