Alternative strategies for selecting population controls: Comparison of random digit dialing and targeted telephone calls

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-67

  Funkhouser, Ellen ^a,b   Macaluso, Maurizio ^a   Wang, Xingqiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer; Case Control Studies; Epidemiologic Methods; Participation Rates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0033982897     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(99)00046-0     Document Type: Article

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