Should we use a case-crossover design?

By M. Maclure, M. Mittleman. Annual Review of Public Health, 2000

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Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) in Studies of Substance Use (2009, positive): “To address this limitation, investigators have developed case-control or, more accurately, casecrossover (because it’s within-subjects; Maclure & Mittleman, 2000) designs that also collect data on non-smoking moments, by using time-based assessments, prompting subjects for assessments at…”
Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Statistical Review (2003, background): “In the last decade of application, it has been shown that the case-crossover design is best suited to study intermittent exposures inducing immediate and transient risk, and abrupt rare outcomes (Maclure & Mittleman, 2000).”
Tutorial in biostatistics: the self‐controlled case series method (2006, methodology): “There are several variants of this method, reviewed by Greenland [8], and the case-crossover approach has been used in many settings [9].”
Triggering Myocardial Infarction by Marijuana (2001, neutral): “Calcium channel blockers 16 (13) 911 (24) 0.004 b-blockers 16 (13) 817 ( 22 ) 0.02”