Evaluating recall bias in a case-crossover design estimating risk of injury related to alcohol: data from six countries.
Introduction and Aims: Prior work suggests that recall bias may be a threat to the validity of relative risk estimation of injury due to alcohol consumption, when the case-crossover method is used based on drinking during the same six hours period the week prior to injury as the control period. This...
| Published in: | Drug & Alcohol Review Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 512 - 519 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2013
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