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1. Removal of radiation dose response effects: an example of over-matching: over-matching can be a design fault in case-control studies and may lead to bias. J L Marsh and colleagues describe a case-control study of workers at a nuclear reprocessing plant in which over-matching obscured the relation between radiation exposure and mortality from leukaemia. (Education and Debate)

Author

Marsh, JL, Hutton, JL, and Binks, Keith

Subjects
Medical research -- Methods -- Health aspects, Medicine, Experimental -- Methods -- Health aspects, Leukemia -- Risk factors, Radiation -- Health aspects -- Methods, Health, Risk factors, Methods, Health aspects
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Summary points Case-control studies are useful in examining the epidemiology of rare diseases They can be biased through a design fault called over-matching The current case-control study of Sellafield workers [...]

Published
2002

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