Time-sampled versus continuous-time reporting for measuring incidence

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 376-378

  McNamee, Roseanne ^a   Chen, Yiqun ^b   Hussey, Louise ^a   Agius, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Cancer Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; WORK;

COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 77950931346     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181d5c03f     Document Type: Article

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