Evaluating the use of friend or family controls in epidemiologic case-control studies

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• 作者：Charlie Zhong^a ; Myles Cockburn^b ; Wendy Cozen^b ; Jenna Voutsinas^a ; James V. Lacey Jr.^a ; Jianning Luo^a ; Jane Sullivan-Halley^a ; Leslie Bernstein^a ; Sophia S. Wang ; Ph.D^a ; ^{sowang@coh.org}
• 关键词：RDD ; random digit dialing ; NHL ; non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• 刊名：Cancer Epidemiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：46
• 期：Complete
• 页码：9-13
• 全文大小：289 K
• 卷排序：46

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We evaluated the feasibility of recruiting friend and/or family members of cases to serve as controls for a case-control study design. Ascertaining friend and family control information from case patients at recruitment could supplement other methodologies control recruitment. Friend controls were found to have similar demographic characteristics and questionnaire responses compared to population based controls. Family controls differed in sex and income compared to population based controls, but otherwise had similar questionnaire responses.