Does attrition during follow-up of a population cohort study inevitably lead to biased estimates of health status?

Attrition is a potential source of bias in cohort studies. Although attrition may be inevitable in cohort studies of older people, there is little empirical evidence as to whether bias due to such attrition is also inevitable. Anonymised primary care data, routinely collected in clinical practice an...

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Main Authors: Rosie J Lacey, Kelvin P Jordan, Peter R Croft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083948&type=printable
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