Community controls were preferred to hospital controls in a case-control study where the cases are derived from the hospital

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 926-931

  Neupane, Binod ^a   Walter, Stephen D ^a   Krueger, Paul ^a,b   Loeb, Mark ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case; Community or population control; Control selection; control study; Hospital control; Pneumonia; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; CANADA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77953612505     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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