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18277164

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-2-15
pubmed:abstractText
Studies of event-related (or "event-phase") interventions (such as ski helmets) can address injury at a specific body site (such as the head) by using as controls a group of people who experienced the same event (fall) and suffered injuries at other body sites (other than the head). The research question addressed by this type of study is the effect of an exposure or intervention (helmet) during the event phase (fall) of the causal chain. However, this is a valid case-control design only if the controls (skiers with other injuries) provide a reasonable proxy for the prevalence of exposure (helmet-wearing) in the underlying event-phase source population (skiers who fell). This assumption needs to be carefully assessed. Factors associated with both helmet-wearing and injury given a fall (eg, previous injury history, skiing inexperience, or risk-taking behavior) have considerable potential to create bias.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1044-3983
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
277-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Injury case-control studies using "other injuries" as controls.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA. smarshall@unc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article