Cohort Studies

Anthony B. Miller, David C. Goff, Karin Bammann and Pascal Wild
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Anthony B. Miller: University of Toronto, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
David C. Goff: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine
Karin Bammann: Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS), Division of Biometry and Data Management
Pascal Wild: INRS, Département Epidémiologie en Entreprises

Chapter I.5 in Handbook of Epidemiology, 2005, pp 253-285 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter summarises our basic understanding of cohort studies, a type of observational epidemiology study that some have also called longitudinal, or prospective. A cohort study evaluates the risk of disease or disease-related outcome in a population that is characterised in terms of relevant risk factors or exposures, placed under observation, and followed for some time until disease develops or not. In contrast to its classical counterpart, the case-control study (cf. Chap. I.6 of this handbook), cohort studies can relate multiple diseases to the exposure or exposures identified. On the other hand, cohort studies are frequently restricted to a limited number of exposures and potential confounders that can be included in the study, if historical data is used.

Keywords: Standardise Mortality Ratio; Cumulative Exposure; Record Linkage; Cohort Member; Mitral Valve Prolapse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-26577-1_6

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