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New methods for estimating follow-up rates in cohort studies

BACKGROUND: The follow-up rate, a standard index of the completeness of follow-up, is important for assessing the validity of a cohort study. A common method for estimating the follow-up rate, the “Percentage Method”, defined as the fraction of all enrollees who developed the event of interest or ha...

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Autores principales: Xue, Xiaonan, Agalliu, Ilir, Kim, Mimi Y., Wang, Tao, Lin, Juan, Ghavamian, Reza, Strickler, Howard D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29191174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0436-z