Cargando…

Point: Incident Exposures, Prevalent Exposures, and Causal Inference: Does Limiting Studies to Persons Who Are Followed From First Exposure Onward Damage Epidemiology?

The idea that epidemiologic studies should start from first exposure onward has been advocated in the past few years. The study of incident exposures is contrasted with studies of prevalent exposures in which follow-up may commence after first exposure. The former approach is seen as a hallmark of a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Vandenbroucke, Jan, Pearce, Neil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26507305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwv225