Origins and early development of the case-control study: part 2, The case-control study from Lane-Claypon to 1950

Nigl Paneth, Ezra Susser and Mervyn Susser

International Journal of Public Health, 2002, vol. 47, issue 6, 359-365

Abstract: The first modern case-control study was Janet Lane-Claypon's study of breast cancer in 1926, but the design was used only sporadically in medicine and the social sciences until 1950, when four published case-control studies linked smoking and lung cancer. These 1950 studies synthesized the essential elements of the case-control comparison, produced a conceptual shift within epidemiology, and laid the foundation for the rapid development of the case-control design in the subsequent half century. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, 2002

Keywords: Key words.Case-control study – Epidemiology – History. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/s000380200003

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