THE QUALITY OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA IN CORONARY HEART-DISEASE AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS

被引：13

作者：

STEHBENS, WE ^{[1
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机构：

[1] MALAGHAN INST MED RES, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND

来源：

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY | 1993年 / 46卷 / 12期

关键词：

CORONARY HEART DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; QUALITY OF DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

D O I：

10.1016/0895-4356(93)90133-L

中图分类号：

R19 [保健组织与事业（卫生事业管理）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

There are inherent difficulties in the use of indirect observations in the epidemiology of a chronic ubiquitous disease such as atherosclerosis. Such difficulties do not condone basic errors in epidemiological methodology, the use of low quality data, a lack of precision in measurements, invalid extrapolations and inappropriate use of terminology and coronary heart disease as a surrogate or synonym of coronary atherosclerosis and bias in the interpretation of data. These errors reveal a lack of rigorous and scientific standards in the epidemiology of coronary heart disease. Analysis cannot launder such data. Independent scientists must evaluate the data in respect of precision, logic and truth.

引用

页码：1337 / 1346

页数：10

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