Matching for risk factors in case control studies
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Secondary matching: a method for selecting controls in case-control studies on environmental risk factors.
BACKGROUND The problem of control selection was considered in a population-based case-control study on pleural mesothelioma in Spain. Random sampling from the population was discarded because of potential selection bias due to low participation. Selection of hospital controls by matching them to cases by hospital seemed unsuitable for investigating environmental exposures, as the choice of hosp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Medical Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0971-5916
DOI: 10.4103/0971-5916.155597