Effect of systematic exposure assessment errors in partially ecologic case-control studies

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 154-160

  Björk, Jonas ^a,b   Strömberg, Ulf ^a  

^a Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias (epidemiology); Case control studies; Ecologic studies; Epidemiological methods; Models; Occupational exposure; Odds ratio; Statistical

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LITERATURE REVIEW;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036009572     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/31.1.154     Document Type: Article

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