Who wants a free brain scan? Assessing and correcting for recruitment biases in a population-based sMRI pilot study

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 204-212

  Ganguli, Mary ^a,b,g   Lee, Ching Wen ^a   Hughes, Tiffany ^a   Snitz, Beth E ^a   Jakubcak, Jennifer ^a   Duara, Ranjan ^c,d,e,f   Chang, Chung Chou H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Propensity scores; Standard error; Survey sampling

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SELECTION BIAS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84929943597     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-014-9297-9     Document Type: Article

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