The partial questionnaire design for case-control studies. Conference Paper

abstract

• We propose an alternative to a long questionnaire that may increase quality while reducing the cost and effort of participants and researchers. In the 'partial questionnaire design', information about the exposure of interest is obtained from all subjects, while zero, one, or more disjoint subsets of questions about possible confounders are asked to randomly selected subgroups. The proposed analyses exploit the fact that the uncollected data can be considered to be missing at random. We show that it is possible to obtain high efficiency for estimating the effect of exposure of interest, adjusted for confounding, while substantially shortening average questionnaire length.

authors

• Carroll, Raymond

published proceedings

• Stat Med

author list (cited authors)

• Wacholder, S., Carroll, R. J., Pee, D., & Gail, M. H.

citation count

• 40

complete list of authors

• Wacholder, S||Carroll, RJ||Pee, D||Gail, MH

publication date

• March 1994

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Statistics in Medicine  Journal

keywords

• Bias
• Case-Control Studies
• Cost-benefit Analysis
• Humans
• Likelihood Functions
• Medical History Taking
• Mouth Neoplasms
• Odds Ratio
• Pharyngeal Neoplasms
• Quality Assurance, Health Care
• Risk Factors
• Smoking
• Surveys And Questionnaires

PubMed Central ID

• 8023038

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/sim.4780130523

start page

• 623

end page

• 634

volume

• 13

issue

• 5-7

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%2Fsim.4780130523