Open AccessMisclassification rates for current smokers misclassified as nonsmokers.
Author(s) -
A. Judson Wells,
Paul English,
Samuel F. Posner,
Lynne E. Wagenknecht,
Eliseo J. PérezStable
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.88.10.1503
Subject(s) - medicine , information bias , demography , cotinine , cigarette smoking , passive smoking , environmental health , nicotine , selection bias , pathology , sociology
This paper provides misclassification rates for current cigarette smokers who report themselves as nonsmokers. Such rates are important in determining smoker misclassification bias in the estimation of relative risks in passive smoking studies.