Open AccessOral contraceptive use: interview data versus pharmacy records
Author(s) -
Staffan E. Norell,
Göran Boëthius,
Ingemar Persson
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/27.6.1033
Subject(s) - pharmacy , medical prescription , medicine , recall , duration (music) , family medicine , recall bias , demography , psychology , nursing , art , literature , sociology , cognitive psychology , pathology
If women tend to forget and underreport their past oral contraceptive (OC) use, but the recall among cases is enhanced by the presence of disease, recall bias may explain some reported health effects of OC use.
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