Demographics, health behaviors, and past drug use as predictors of recall accuracy for previous prescription medication use

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 975-980

  West, Suzanne L ^a,e   Savitz, David A ^a   Koch, Gary ^a   Sheff, Karen L ^b   Strom, Brian L ^c   Guess, Harry A ^a   Hartzema, Abraham G ^d  

^a IL   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Drugs; Epidemiologic methods; Questionnaires; Recall; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RECALL; SELF REPORT; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 0030874641     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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