Hospital visitors as controls in case-control studies
OBJECTIVE: Selecting controls is one of the most difficult tasks in the design of case-control studies. Hospital controls may be inadequate and random controls drawn from the base population may be unavailable. The aim was to assess the use of hospital visitors as controls in a case-control study on...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2001-10-01
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Series: | Revista de Saúde Pública |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102001000500005&lng=en&tlng=en |