The quasi-cohort approach in pharmacoepidemiology: Upgrading the nested case-control

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 242-246

  Suissa, Samy ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MODEL; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; QUASI COHORT APPROACH; STUDY DESIGN; ADULT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84924074616     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000221     Document Type: Article

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