Locating study subjects: Predictors and successful search strategies with inmates released from a U.S. County Jail

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 238-247

  Menendez, Enrique ^a   White, Mary Castle ^a   Tulsky, Jacqueline P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Corrections; Follow up; Jail; Locating study subjects; Longitudinal study methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRISON; PRISONER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRISONERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 0034984836     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(01)00133-7     Document Type: Article

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