A comparison of standard methods with G-estimation of accelerated failure-time models to address the healthy-worker survivor effect: Application in a cohort of autoworkers exposed to metalworking fluids

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 212-219

  Chevrier, Jonathan ^a   Picciotto, Sally ^a   Eisen, Ellen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; METALWORKING FLUID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCELERATED FAILURE TIME MODEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; G ESTIMATION; HEALTHY WORKER SURVIVOR EFFECT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILES; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL OILS; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856939012     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318245fc06     Document Type: Article

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