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Selecting appropriate study designs to address specific research questions in occupational epidemiology

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: UNLABELLED: Various epidemiological study designs are available to investigate illness and injury risks related to workplace exposures. The choice of study design to address a particular research question will be guided by the nature of the health outcome under study, its presumed relation to workplace exposures, and feasibility constraints. This review summarises the relative advantages and limitations of conventional study designs including cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, repeated measures studies, case-control (industry- and community-based) studies, and more recently developed variants of the nested case-control DESIGN: case-cohort and case-crossover studies.

Source: Occupational and Environmental Medicine

DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.029967

Authors: Harvey Checkoway, Neil Pearce, David Kriebel

Institutions: University of Washington, Centre international de recherche sur le cancer, Massey University, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Language: English

Topic: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

Subfield: Statistics and Probability

Field: Mathematics

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1993353216

FWCI: 2.201

Cites: 24

Cited by: 72

Related to: 10