Term: Matching Cases and Controls

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2008-09-09

Definition:

Matching cases and controls involves matching a study participant with a particular condition or treatment (i.e., case) to a study participant without that condition or treatment (i.e., control).

Related concepts 

• Matching Cases to Controls Using a Direct Matching Method
• Risk Set Sampling (Matching) with Replacement

Related terms 

• Case Control Studies
• Conditional Logistic Regression
• Matched Cohorts
• Retrospective Studies

References 

• Mandrekar JN, Mandrekar SJ. An introduction to matching and its application using SAS (Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, 29, 208 'Statistics and Data Analysis'). 2004. [Abstract] (View)

Term used in 

• Finlayson G, Ekuma O, Yogendran M, Burland E, Forget E. The Additional Cost of Chronic Disease in Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2010. [Report] [Summary] (View)