Assessing the component associations of the healthy worker survivor bias: Occupational asbestos exposure and lung cancer mortality

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 334-341

  Naimi, Ashley I ^a   Cole, Stephen R ^a   Hudgens, Michael G ^a   Brookhart, M Alan ^a   Richardson, David B ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Epidemiologic methods; Healthy worker effect; Lung cancer; Mortality; Occupational health

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVOR; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WORKER;

ADULT; ASBESTOS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOUTH CAROLINA; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877966202     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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