Is calculating pack-years retrospectively a valid method to estimate life-time tobacco smoking? A comparison between prospectively calculated pack-years and retrospectively calculated pack-years

Addiction

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1653-1661

  Bernaards, Claire M ^a   Twisk, Jos W R ^a   Snel, Jan ^a   Van Mechelen, Willem ^a,b   Kemper, Han C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035173192     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2001.9611165311.x     Document Type: Article

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