Other studies can use randomized designs to compare outcomes for groups of children who receive different interventions or educational treatments.

That allowed the researchers to compare outcomes for similar babies in regions with more, or fewer, newborn intensive care beds.

Many international collaborative studies followed, comparing outcomes after different severity of injury and with alternative therapeutic regimes.

The orthodox way to find out is to randomly assign patients to have the lung scanning test, or not, and then compare outcomes.

This is not a true economic evaluation as it does not compare the costs and outcomes of alternative courses of action.

The findings come from an ongoing Swedish study comparing long-term outcomes among obese patients who did and did not have the surgery.

However, it only compares outcomes that differ by one winner directly.

On occasion, institutional researchers share data with one another to compare their own practices and outcomes against those of similar institutions.

This research could partially explain how other studies have found a small significant difference in comparing educational outcomes between charter and traditional public schools.

The CE ratio is a fraction used to compare the relative costs and outcomes of two or more interventions.