Origins and early development of the case-control study: Part 2, the case-control study from Lane-Claypon to 1950

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 359-365

  Paneth, Nigel ^a   Susser, Ezra ^b   Susser, Mervyn ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Epidemiology; History

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; FOLIC ACID; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLON CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MYALGIA; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; REYE SYNDROME; SMOKING; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; VAGINA CARCINOMA;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PENILE NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036910189     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000380200003     Document Type: Article

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