Capture-recapture methods to size alcohol related problems in a population

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 603-610

  Corrao, Giovanni ^a   Bagnardi, Vincenzo ^a   Vittadini, Giovanni ^b   Favilli, Sergio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0033912469     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.8.603     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Fleming MF, Barry KL, Manwell LB, et al. Brief physician advice for problem alcohol drinkers: a randomized controlled trial in community-based primary care practices. JAMA 1997;277:1039-45.
2. Fleming MF, Manwell LB, Barry KL, et al. At-risk drinking in an HMO primary care sample; prevalence and health policy implications. Am J Publ Health 1988;88:90-3.
3. Midanik LT. Validity of self-reported alcohol use. Br J Addict 1988;83:1019-30.
4. Litten RZ, Allen JP. Measuring alcohol consumption: psychosocial and biochemical methods. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1992.
5. Wallace P, Haines A. Use of a questionnaire in general practice to increase the recognition of patients with excessive alcohol consumption. BMJ Clin Res Ed 1985;290:1949-53.
6. Conigliaro J, Lofgren RP, Hanusa BH. Screening for problem drinking: impact on physician behavior and patient drinking habits. J Gen Intern Med 1998;13:251-6.
7. Hill A, Roberts J, Ewings P, et al. Non-response bias in a lifestyle survey. J Public Health Med 1997;19:203-7.
8. Babor TF, Stephens RS, Marlatt GA. Verbal report methods in clinical research on alcoholism: response bias and its minimization. J Stud Alcohol 1987;48:410-24.
9. Fuller RK, Lee KK, Gordis E. Validity of self-report in alcoholism research: results of a veterans administration cooperative study. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1988;12:201-5.
10. Bradley KA, Boyd-Wickizer J, Powell SH, et al. Alcohol screening questionnaires in women: a critical review. JAMA 1998;280:166-71.
11. International Working Group for Disease Monitoring and Forecasting. Capture-recapture and multiple-record systems estimation. I. History and theoretical development. Am J Epidemiol 1995;142:1047-58.
12. Chapman DG. The estimation of biological populations. Ann Math Statist 1954;25:1-15.
13. Chandrasekar C, Deming WE. On a method of estimating birth and death rates and the extent of registration. J Am Stat Assoc 1949;44:101-15.
14. Hook EB, Regal RR. Capture-recapture methods in epidemiology: methods and limitations. Epidemiol Rev 1995;17:243-64.
15. Cates W JR, Smith JC, Rochat RW. Assessment of surveillance and vital statistics data for monitoring abortion mortality, United States, 1972-1975. Am J Epidemiol 1078; 108:200-6.
16. Huether CA, Gummere GR. Influence of demographic factors on annual Down's syndrome births in Ohio, 1970-1979, and the United States, 1920-1979. Am J Epidemiol 1982;115:846-60.
17. Robles SC, Marrett LD, Clarke EA, et al. An application of capture-recapture methods to the estimation of completeness of cancer registration. J Clin Epidemiol 1988;41:495-501.
18. Cochi SL, Edmonds LE, Dyer K, et al. Congenital rubella syndrome in the United States, 1970-1985. On the verge of elimination. Am J Epidemiol 1989;129:349-61.
19. Bruno G, LaPorte RE, Merletti F, et al. National diabetes programs. Application of capture-recapture to count diabetes? Diabetes Care 1994;17:548-56.
20. Frischer M, Bloor M, Finlay A, et al. A new method of estimating prevalence of injecting drug use in an urban population: result from a Scottish city. Im J Epidemiol 1991;20:997-1000.
21. Domingo-Salvany A, Hartnoll RL, Maguire A, et al. Use of capture-recapture to estimate the prevalence of opiate addiction in Barcelona, Spain, 1989. Am J Epidemiol 1995; 141:567-74.
22. Egeland GM, Perham-Hester KA, Hook EB. Use of capture-recapture analyses in fetal alcohol syndrome surveillance in Alaska. Am J Epidemiol 1995 141:335-41.
23. Aptel I, Salmi LR, Masson F, et al. Road accident statistics: discrepancies between police and hospital data in a French island. Accident Analysis and Prevention 1999;31:101-8.
24. Aricò S, Zannero A, Galatola G, et al. Family Compliance to a treatment programme for alcoholics: a prospective study of prognostic factors. Alcohol Alcohol 1994;29:679-85.
25. International Working Group for Disease Monitoring and Forecasting. Capture-recapture and multiple-record systems estimation. II. Applications in human diseases. Am J Epidemiol 1995;142:1059-68.
26. Chapman DG. Some proprieties of the hyper-geometric distribution with applications to zoological sample census. Berkeley, University of California Publications in Statistics 1951;1:131-60.
27. Seber GAF. The effect of trap response on tag recapture estimates. Biometrics 1970;26:13-22.
28. Hook EB, Regal RR. Effect of variation in probability of ascertainment by sources ("variable catchability") upon capture-recapture estimates of prevalence. Am J Epidemiol 1993;137:1148-66.
29. Wittes JT, Colton T, Sidel VW. Capture-recapture methods for assessing the completeness of case ascertainment when using multiple information sources. J Chron Dis 1974;27: 25-36.
30. k contingency tables. Biometrika 1972;59:591-603.
31. Cormack RM. Log-linear models for capture-recapture. Biometrics 1989;45:395-413.
32. Bishop YMM, Fienberg SE, Holland PW. Discrete multivariate analysis: theory and practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975:229-56.
33. Hook EB, Regal RR. Goodness-of-fit based confidence intervals for estimates of the size of a closed population. Stat Med 1984;3:287-91.
34. Darroch JN, Fienberg SE, Glonek GF, et al. A three-sample multiple-recapture approach to census population estimation with heterogeneous catchability. J Am Stat Ass 1993;88:1137-48.
35. Agresti A. Simple capture-recapture models permitting unequal catchability and variable sampling effort. Biometrics 1994;50:494-500.
36. McCullagh RJ, Neider JA. Generalized linear models. Cambridge: Chapman and Hall University Press, 1988.
37. Baker RJ, Nelder JA. The GLIM System. Release 3.77. Oxford: Numerical Algorithms Group, 1985.
38. Ewing JA. Detecting alcoholism: the CAGE questionnaire: a critical review. JAMA 1984;252:1905-7.
39. Osservatorio Permanente sui Giovani e l'Alcool. Gli italiani e l'alcool. Consumi, tendenze ed atteggiamenti. Rome: Vignola Editore, 1998.
40. Liskow B, Campbell J, Nickel EJ, et al. Validity of the CAGE questionnaire in screening for alcohol dependence in a walk-in (triage) clinic. J Stud Alcohol 1995;56:277-81.
41. Hook EB, Regal RR. Internal validity analysis: a method for adjusting capture-recapture estimates of prevalence. Am J Epidemiol 1995;142:S48-52.
42. Mastro TD, Kitayaporn D, Weniger BG, et al. Estimating the number of HIV-infected injection drug users in Bangkok: a capture-recapture method. Am J Public Health 1994;84:1094-9.
43. Brenner H. Use and limitations of the capture-recapture method in disease monitoring with two dependent sources. Epidemiology 1995;6:42-8.
44. Tam TW, Schmidt L, Weisner C. Patterns in the institutional encounters of problem drinkers in a community human services network. Addiction 1996;91:657-69.