Reliability of data on smoking habit and coffee drinking collected by personal interview in a hospital-based case-control study

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-267

  Donato, Francesco ^a   Boffetta, Paolo ^b   Fazioli, Raffaella ^a   Gelatti, Umberto ^a   Porru, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Coffee drinking; Reliability; Tobacco smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RELIABILITY; SMOKING HABIT; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COFFEE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SMOKING; TELEPHONE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031838819     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007463620130     Document Type: Article

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