Citation
Blair, Aaron; Stewart, Walter F.; Stewart, Patricia A.; Sandler, Dale P.; Axelson, Olav; Vineis, Paolo; Checkoway, Harvey; Savitz, David A.; Pearce, Neal; & Rice, Carol (1995). A Philosophy for Dealing with Hypothesized Uncontrolled Confounding in Epidemiological Investigations. Medicina del Lavoro, 86(2), 106-110.Abstract
Control for confounding and evaluation of the potential for uncontrolled confounding is necessary to ensure validity in epidemiologic investigations. Well established risk factors that could confound can be handled in a relatively straightforward fashion in the design phase of the study and in statistical analyses. However, new hypotheses regarding potential cofnounders are often raised after data collection is complete. In situations where confounding was not controlled by design or statistical analysis, the issue becomes how to evaluate reported associations in epidemiologic studies when uncontrolled confounding is raised as an alternative explanation.
Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
1995Journal Title
Medicina del LavoroAuthor(s)
Blair, AaronStewart, Walter F.
Stewart, Patricia A.
Sandler, Dale P.
Axelson, Olav
Vineis, Paolo
Checkoway, Harvey
Savitz, David A.
Pearce, Neal
Rice, Carol