You Are Reading a Paper in the Journal Vaccine That

question 44

Multiple Choice

You are reading a paper in the journal Vaccine that analyzed and combined the results from five observational studies involving over 1 million children and another five studies that compared children with autism to children without autism (a total of nearly 10,000 children) .The paper you are reading is best recognized as a

• A) secondary literature source.
• B) meta-analysis and primary literature source.
• C) cohort study.
• D) case-control study.

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