Reliability of information on cigarette smoking and beverage consumption provided by hospital controls

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 312-315

  D'Avanzo, Barbara ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,b,c   Katsouyanni, Klea ^d   Negri, Eva ^a   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^c  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

alcohol drinking; case control studies; coffee; epidemiologic methods; misclassification; reproducibility; smoking

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TEA;

EID: 0029935687     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199605000-00018     Document Type: Article

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