Selection of subjects for hospital-based epidemiologic studies based on outward manifestations of disease.

@article{citeulike:2808793, abstract = {Selection of controls with the same outward manifestations of disease as the case group has been proposed as a means of avoiding selection bias in hospital-based case-control studies. The same strategy, however, can lead to selection bias in registry-based case-control studies that use control diseases with similar manifestations whose diagnoses might have been associated with the exposure. Matching exposed and unexposed subjects by outward manifestation of disease can be used in cohort and cross-sectional studies aiming at decreasing selection bias. This strategy in these study designs may lead to overmatching, but this will not bias the relative-risk estimates. Efficiency considerations in applying this strategy require further investigation.}, address = {Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.}, author = {Nishioka, S. A. and Gyorkos, T. W. and Joseph, L. and Collet, J. P. }, citeulike-article-id = {2808793}, issn = {0147-958X}, journal = {Clinical and investigative medicine. M\'{e}decine clinique et experimentale}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {299--303}, posted-at = {2008-05-18 11:14:46}, priority = {2}, title = {Selection of subjects for hospital-based epidemiologic studies based on outward manifestations of disease.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11767233}, volume = {24}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2808793 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2808793 TI - Selection of subjects for hospital-based epidemiologic studies based on outward manifestations of disease. JF - Clinical and investigative medicine. Médecine clinique et experimentale VL - 24 IS - 6 SP - 299 EP - 303 AD - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que. SN - 0147-958X N2 - Selection of controls with the same outward manifestations of disease as the case group has been proposed as a means of avoiding selection bias in hospital-based case-control studies. The same strategy, however, can lead to selection bias in registry-based case-control studies that use control diseases with similar manifestations whose diagnoses might have been associated with the exposure. Matching exposed and unexposed subjects by outward manifestation of disease can be used in cohort and cross-sectional studies aiming at decreasing selection bias. This strategy in these study designs may lead to overmatching, but this will not bias the relative-risk estimates. Efficiency considerations in applying this strategy require further investigation. AU - Nishioka, SA AU - Gyorkos, TW AU - Joseph, L AU - Collet, JP PY - 2001/12// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11767233 ER -