Residual confounding after adjustment for age: a minor issue in breast cancer screening effectiveness

Residual confounding, after adjustment for age, is the major criticism of observational studies on breast cancer screening effectiveness. We developed realistic scenarios for the prevalence and strength of risk factors on screened and not screened groups, and explored the impact of residual confound...

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Autores principales: van Schoor, Guido, Paap, Ellen, Broeders, Mireille J. M., Verbeek, André L. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21519892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-011-9584-3
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author van Schoor, Guido
Paap, Ellen
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description Residual confounding, after adjustment for age, is the major criticism of observational studies on breast cancer screening effectiveness. We developed realistic scenarios for the prevalence and strength of risk factors on screened and not screened groups, and explored the impact of residual confounding bias. Our results demonstrate that residual confounding bias is a minor issue in screening programme evaluations.
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spelling pubmed-31687492011-09-26 Residual confounding after adjustment for age: a minor issue in breast cancer screening effectiveness van Schoor, Guido Paap, Ellen Broeders, Mireille J. M. Verbeek, André L. M. Eur J Epidemiol Commentary Residual confounding, after adjustment for age, is the major criticism of observational studies on breast cancer screening effectiveness. We developed realistic scenarios for the prevalence and strength of risk factors on screened and not screened groups, and explored the impact of residual confounding bias. Our results demonstrate that residual confounding bias is a minor issue in screening programme evaluations. Springer Netherlands 2011-04-26 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3168749/ /pubmed/21519892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-011-9584-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Residual confounding after adjustment for age: a minor issue in breast cancer screening effectiveness
title Residual confounding after adjustment for age: a minor issue in breast cancer screening effectiveness
title_full Residual confounding after adjustment for age: a minor issue in breast cancer screening effectiveness
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title_sort residual confounding after adjustment for age: a minor issue in breast cancer screening effectiveness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21519892
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