Linkage of survey data with district-level lung cancer registrations: a method of bias reduction in ecological studies

Objective: To investigate a stratified ecological method for reducing ecological bias in studies that use aggregate data, by incorporating information on individual-level risk factors into the analysis. Design: Cross-sectional study investigating associations between socioeconomic risk factors and l...

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Published in:Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979) 2006-12, Vol.60 (12), p.1093-1098
Main Authors: Lancaster, Gillian A, Green, Mick, Lane, Steven
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age
Aged
Angioplasty
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Censuses
Confidentiality
Ecological studies
England - epidemiology
Epidemiology
Ethnicity
Female
General aspects
Households
Humans
Local government
Lung cancer
Lung Neoplasms - epidemiology
Male
Medical sciences
Methods
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Pneumology
Population
Prognosis
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Registries
Risk Factors
Sample of Anonymised Records
SAR
SAS
SIR
Small Area Statistics
Social classes
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomics
Standardised Incidence Ratios
Studies
Theory and Methods
Tumors of the respiratory system and mediastinum
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