Healthy Screenee Bias in Epidemiologic Studies of Cancer Incidence

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-322

  Weiss, Noel S ^a   Rossing, Mary Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030134407     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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