What is it about?
Case studies and case series are important experimental designs, especially when investigating special and smaller populations (e.g., people with language disorders). We highlight the benefits these research designs bring as well as their relevance in clinical work, through the results of an online survey.
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Why is it important?
Currently, case studies and case series are not valued in research fields, compared to large-scale studies. This paper argued it is important to address this imbalance.
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This article should provoke discussion on why small-n design studies (case studies and case series) are not valued in current research circles, and stimulate possible solutions to strengthen small-n designs and their statistical analyses.
Wei Ping Sze
University College London
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This page is a summary of: What counts as evidence? Swimming against the tide: Valuing both clinically informed experimentally controlled case series and randomized controlled trials in intervention research, Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, June 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17489539.2019.1597444.
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