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Design and conduct of occupational epidemiology studies: III. Design aspects of case‐control studies
Author(s) -
Pearce Neil,
Checkoway Harvey,
Dement John
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.4700150404
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , research design , cohort study , matching (statistics) , clinical study design , control (management) , selection (genetic algorithm) , selection bias , environmental health , cumulative incidence , cohort , statistics , pathology , computer science , clinical trial , artificial intelligence , physics , mathematics , optics
Currently available approaches for the design of occupational case‐control studies are reviewed. An accompanying paper reviews methods of analysis. We commence by drawing a distinction between cohort‐based and registry‐based studies. Methods for selecting cases and controls are then reviewed, including cumulative incidence and incidence density sampling, matching, sources of controls, and issues in control selection. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of the case‐control approach are summarized.