Readers guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 3. Analytical strategies to reduce confounding

British Medical Journal

Volumn 330, Issue 7498, 2005, Pages 1021-1023

  Normand, Sharon Lise T ^a   Sykora, Kathy ^b   Li, Ping ^b   Mamdani, Muhammad ^b   Rochon, Paula A ^c   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^b,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; HIP FRACTURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; REVIEW;

COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 18044386330     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1021     Document Type: Short Survey

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