Assessment of control selection bias in a hospital-based case-control study of upper aero-digestive tract cancers

Journal of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 131-141

  Nishimoto, Ines N ^a   Pintos, Javier ^b   Schlecht, Nicholas F ^b   Torloni, Humberto ^a   Carvalho, André L ^a   Kowalski, Luiz P ^a   Franco, Eduardo L ^b  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Epidemiological methods; Head and neck neoplasms; Risk factors; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

CAROTENE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CITRUS FRUIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; SPICE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TEA; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 0037987788     PISSN: 14766647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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