Authors: Anne M Jurek George Maldonado Sander Greenland Timothy R Church
Publish Date: 2006/12/21
Volume: 21, Issue: 12, Pages: 871-876
Abstract
To assess how often this consideration is made and the form it takes journal articles were randomly sampled from original articles appearing in the American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology in 2001 and the International Journal of Epidemiology between December 2000 and October 2001Twentytwo 39 of the 57 articles surveyed mentioned nothing about EME Of the 35 articles that mentioned something about EME 16 articles described qualitatively the effect EME could have had on study results Only one study quantified the impact of EME on study results the investigators used a sensitivity analysis Few authors discussed the measurement error in their study in any detail
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