What is wrong with non-respondents? Alcohol-, drug- and smoking-related mortality and morbidity in a 12-year follow-up study of respondents and non-respondents in the Danish Health and Morbidity Survey

Addiction

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1507-1514

  Christensen, Anne Illemann ^a   Ekholm, Ola ^a   Gray, Linsay ^b,c   Glümer, Charlotte ^d   Juel, Knud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Building 84/85   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Bias; Cause specific morbidity; Cause specific mortality; Drug; Health survey; Non response; Smoking; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938073829     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.12939     Document Type: Article

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