The phrase "a targeted study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a research study that focuses on a specific group, issue, or objective.
Example: "The researchers conducted a targeted study to understand the effects of the new policy on low-income families."
Alternatives: "a focused study" or "a specific study".
1. 14 January The Food Safety Authority of Ireland reveals the results of a targeted study that has found undeclared horse DNA in frozen beefburgers on sale in Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
This paper presents a targeted study investigating how the axial strains obtained from these two measurement methods compared.
Historically, the typical arrangement involved a private firm, such as a pharmaceutical company, providing a grant or contract to an academic investigator to conduct a targeted study or pursue a line of research that is of interest to the company and also falls within the scientific interests and expertise of the investigator.
Despite the ease of collection and description of urine metabolomic profiling in many other diseases, only one study has been reported in CF. This was in fact part of a targeted study on altered methyl status and oxidative stress in children with CF [27].
In fact, the National Institutes of Health has agreed to sponsor a targeted study of 30 patients, according to Deeks.
A subsequent genomewide scan for healthy aging in a smaller and younger cohort provided weak support for the chromosome 4q22-25 linkage [25], whereas a targeted study of 164 sibships of nonagenarians did not find linkage to the locus [26], nor did a genomewide scan on bone characteristics as a biomarker for biological aging [27].
These methods and resources were developed with the intention that they would be useful to researchers who wish to test a priori biological hypotheses, either within the context of a GWAS, or for a more targeted study such as studying specific addiction-related genes or fine mapping a region of genetic linkage for an addiction-related phenotype.
The second case study demonstrated that the results from this comprehensive survey of NHANES are comparable with a more targeted study focused on a single disease end point.
Robert L. Redding, Jr., Washington, D.C. representative of the Automotive Service Association, noted in an email that most auto shops now use reusable towels and that trend is unlikely to change until there is a more "targeted study of wipes in the automotive shop environment".
The proteome of this fraction was characterized in a recent targeted study by de Wet et al. [ 58].
Further studies should consider longer trial duration, higher intensity exercise, use of function-based scales as appropriate, and a more targeted study population to reduce group variability when assessing outcomes in interventions designed to improve functional task performance.
