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Bias in cohort studies

Hospital Medicine, 2000
Cohort studies allow an exploration of patient change over time. They can provide information on the incidence of disease, prognosis (including patient satisfaction) and likely health-care resource use. Nonetheless, bias can be present in cohort studies in the way patients are selected and followed-up, the way measures are taken, or the way data are ...
H T, Davies, I K, Crombie
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Evolution of the Cohort Study

Epidemiologic Reviews, 1998
The occurrence of events over time unifies epidemiologic research. Regardless of the study hypothesis and design, the disease-causing actions of exposures and modifying factors are formulated as antecedent to the occurrence of the outcome. All study designs inherently acknowledge time and represent alternative approaches for sampling populations as ...
J M, Samet, A, Muñoz
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The Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study: When is a cohort study not a cohort design?

Nutrition & Dietetics, 2010
AbstractAims:  The paper describes how a variety of different epidemiological study designs can be applied to data arising from a single prospective study.Methods:  An overview of the data collection phases of the Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study is given.
Dorothy E.M. MACKERRAS   +2 more
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Cohort studies: History of the method II. Retrospective cohort studies

Sozial- und Pr�ventivmedizin SPM, 2001
The term "cohort study" was introduced by Frost in 1935 to describe a study that compared the disease experience of people born at different periods, in particular the sex and age specific incidence of tuberculosis and the method was extended to the study of non-communicable disease by Korteweg who used it 20 years later to analyse the epidemic of lung
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Cohort studies: History of the method I. prospective cohort studies

Sozial- und Pr�ventivmedizin SPM, 2001
The term "cohort study" was introduced by Frost in 1935 to describe a study that compared the disease experience of people born at different periods, in particular the sex and age specific incidence of tuberculosis and the method was extended to the study of non-communicable disease by Korteweg who used it 20 years later to analyse the epidemic of lung
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Cohort studis

2009
Abstract Cohort studies constitute one of the basic types of designs in epidemiologic research. The key element of cohort studies is time. Specifically, a cohort (i.e. group of individuals) who at enrolment is free from the disease (i.e.
Alvaro Muñoz, F. Javier Nieto
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