The healthy donor effect: A matter of selection bias and confounding

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1883-1885

  Atsma, Femke ^a,b   De Vegt, Femmie ^a,b  

^a SANQUIN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY DONOR EFFECT; HUMAN; INFORMATION BIAS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

BLOOD DONORS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 80052529994     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03270.x     Document Type: Article

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