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Retrospective research is conducted in order to grasp past events or situations in order to understand some present phenomena. For example, scientists trying to understand the present reality of disease might do a study of tissue samples collected over many years and kept in storage. Researchers also use such studies to examine the effects of certain treatments by of looking at a collection past insurance claims. In India, an article in India's Express Health Care Management says , retrospective studies are the primary form of research in private hospitals because they are cheap and there is little funding for anything else. Nathan Watson and Eric Weiss in their guide for doing emergency room research suggests that such work be confirmed by prospective research owing to such things as record-keeping errors. Ethical issues are just as important for retrospective studies as for other types of research, but as The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill points out, there are no ethical guidelines for such work, about which the pathologists have many concerns.There are now an abundance of tools on the Internet to assist in retrospective library searches either as part of another project or as research projects in themselves.
Examples of Retrospective Research
- The collection of additional habitat data during a Grizzly bear study
- Study of negative effects of "Ecstasy" drug
- Study of Alcohol a workplace health
- Cerebral Palsy related disease - two studies.
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