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historical control group
historical control group A historical control group is a comparison group made up of people from an earlier time period rather than participants studied at the same time as the intervention group.
A historical control group is a comparison group made up of people from an earlier time period rather than participants studied at the same time as the intervention group. In the source study, it referred to stroke rehabilitation patients who had previously received conventional care and were compared with later patients who received the new system.