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Surgical Wound Misclassification

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2015
The article “Surgical wound classifications: a multicenter evaluation” provides valuable additional evidence that the commonly used 4-level surgical wound classification (SWC) is not uniformly applied to some types of surgical procedures. Wedonot believe, however, that this observationwarrants the author’s conclusion that “Surgical wound ...
Peter R, Dodds, Jon H, Dodds
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Misclassification of covariates

Statistics in Medicine, 1991
AbstractIn the context of reported data on asthma mortality, we examine two types of covariate misclassification. The first type is non‐differential misclassification, in which the proportion of subjects misclassified is invariant over exposure and disease status. Building on work by Cox and Elwood and by Blettner and Wahrendorf, we find that the range
A M, Walker, S F, Lanes
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CONFOUNDING AND MISCLASSIFICATION

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1985
The authors examine some recently proposed criteria for determining when to adjust for covariates related to misclassification, and show these criteria to be incorrect. In particular, they show that when misclassification is present, covariate control can sometimes increase net bias, even when the covariate would have been a confounder under perfect ...
S, Greenland, J M, Robins
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Misclassification by psychiatric screening questionnaires

Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1986
Two psychiatric screening instruments were applied to a sample of attenders (n = 875) in three primary medical care clinics in the city of Sao Paulo. The two questionnaires were validated in a subsample (n = 260) against the Clinical Interview Schedule [8].
J J, Mari, P, Williams
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