<prompt> Case control Study isBackward studyForward studyCurrent studyFeature study  <response>: A Backward study Case-control is a type of epidemiological study design. Case-control studies are used to identify factors that may contribute to a medical condition by comparing subjects who have that condition the cases with patients who do not have the condition but are otherwise similar the controls. Case-control studies are a relatively inexpensive and frequently-used type of epidemiological study that can be carried out by small teams or individual researchers in single facilities in a way that more structured experimental studies often cannot be. They have pointed the way to a number of important discoveries and advances, but their retrospective-backward, non-randomized nature limits the conclusions that can be drawn from them. 