Effects of disease misclassification on exposure-disease association

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Qixuan ^a   Galfalvy, Hanga ^a,b   Duan, Naihua ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876819241     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300995     Document Type: Article

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