Causal inference in occupational epidemiology: Accounting for the healthy worker effect by using structural nested models

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1681-1686

  Naimi, Ashley I ^a   Richardson, David B ^b   Cole, Stephen R ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Healthy worker effect; Marginal structural models; Occupational epidemiology; Structural nested models

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOFTWARE;

COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL TIME;

CAUSAL INFERENCE; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; MARGINAL STRUCTURAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURAL NESTED MODELS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

CARY; NORTH CAROLINA; NORWAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890675733     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt215     Document Type: Review

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