Evaluation of community-wide interventions: The ecologic case-referent study design

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 551-557

  Wiegersma, Pieter A ^a   Hofman, Albert ^b   Zielhuis, Gerhard A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecologic case referent study design; Effect evaluation; Evidence based medicine; Health services research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0035723975     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014568930992     Document Type: Article

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