Reproducibility of responses to telephone interviews: Demographic predictors of discordance in risk factor status

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 1097-1106

  Stein, Aryeh D ^a,b   Courval, Jeanne M ^a   Lederman, Ruth I ^b   Shea, Steven ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Data collection; Demographics; Reproducibility of results; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGE; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0029076578     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117375     Document Type: Article

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