Healthy worker survivor bias: Implications of truncating follow-up at employment termination

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 736-742

  Picciotto, Sally ^a   Brown, Daniel M ^a   Chevrier, Jonathan ^a   Eisen, Ellen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

HEALTHY WORKER SURVIVOR EFFECT;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; SOLVENTS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884588747     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101332     Document Type: Article

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