Should Controls With Respiratory Symptoms Be Excluded From Case-Control Studies of Pneumonia Etiology? Reflections From the PERCH Study

Many pneumonia etiology case-control studies exclude controls with respiratory illness from enrollment or analyses. Herein we argue that selecting controls regardless of respiratory symptoms provides the least biased estimates of pneumonia etiology. We review 3 reasons investigators may choose to ex...

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Autores principales: Higdon, Melissa M., Hammitt, Laura L., Deloria Knoll, Maria, Baggett, Henry C., Brooks, W. Abdullah, Howie, Stephen R. C., Kotloff, Karen L., Levine, Orin S., Madhi, Shabir A., Murdoch, David R., Scott, J. Anthony G., Thea, Donald M., Driscoll, Amanda J., Karron, Ruth A., Park, Daniel E., Prosperi, Christine, Zeger, Scott L., O’Brien, Katherine L., Feikin, Daniel R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Supplement Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix076

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix076

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