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A mathematical model of case-ascertainment bias: Applied to case-control studies nested within a randomized screening trial

When some individuals are screen-detected before the beginning of the study, but otherwise would have been diagnosed symptomatically during the study, this results in different case-ascertainment probabilities among screened and unscreened participants, referred to here as lead-time-biased case-asce...

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Autores principales: Jansen, Rick J., Alexander, Bruce H., Hayes, Richard B., Miller, Anthony B., Wacholder, Sholom, Church, Timothy R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5858824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29554151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194608

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