The impact of misclassification due to survey response fatigue on estimation and identifiability of treatment effects

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 3560-3572

  Egleston, Brian L ^a   Miller, Suzanne M ^a   Meropol, Neal J ^b  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SIMULATION; FATIGUE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPONSE VARIABLE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL FATIGUE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83555172519     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4377     Document Type: Article

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