期刊
ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 26, 期 11, 页码 794-801出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.09.002
关键词
Asthma; Bias analysis; Outcome misclassification; Selection bias; Sensitivity analysis; World Trade Center; 9/11
资金
- National Institutes of Health National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [U01OH010730]
Purpose: When learning bias analysis, epidemiologists are taught to quantitatively adjust for multiple biases by correcting study results in the reverse order of the error sequence. To understand the error sequence for a particular study, one must carefully examine the health study's epidemiologic data generating process. In this article, we describe the unique data-generating process of a man-made disaster epidemiologic study. Methods: We described the data-generating process and conducted a bias analysis for a study associating September 11, 2001 dust cloud exposure and self-reported newly physician-diagnosed asthma among rescue-recovery workers and volunteers. We adjusted an odds ratio (OR) estimate for the combined effect of missing data, outcome misclassification, and nonparticipation. Results: Under our assumptions about systematic error, the ORs adjusted for all three biases ranged from 1.33 to 3.84. Most of the adjusted estimates were greater than the observed OR of 1.77 and were outside the 95% confidence limits (1.55, 2.01). Conclusions: Man-made disasters present some situations that are not observed in other areas of epidemiology. Future epidemiologic studies of disasters could benefit from a proactive approach that focuses on the technical aspect of data collection and gathers information on bias parameters to provide more meaningful interpretations of results. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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