Posted: November 14th, 2016

Type 2 diabetes care for patients in a tertiary care setting in UAE: a retrospective cohort study

2. 2. Read [Type 2 diabetes care for patients in a tertiary care setting in UAE:

a retrospective cohort study] and answer the following questions relating this study.

1. What are the main exposure and outcome of interest in the study
2. How many control groups were employed in the study, and which were they. In general, what is the advantage of using more than one control group
3. How long the period of observation
4. Did the authors use primary data or secondary data
5. What is the main hypothesis being tested
6. What were the exclusion and inclusion criteria
7. What evidence was presented that the cases were not a biased sample
8. Discuss the main results of the study
9. What did the author do to reduce bias in the study