How many are affected? A real limit of epidemiology
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Poole, Charles
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
- Abstract
- Abstract A person can experience an effect on the occurrence of an outcome in a defined follow-up period without experiencing an effect on the risk of that outcome over the same period. Sufficient causes are sometimes used to deepen potential-outcome explanations of this phenomenon. In doing so, care should be taken to avoid tipping the balance between simplification and realism too far toward simplification. Death and other competing risks should not be assumed away. The time scale should be explicit, with specific times for the occurrence of specified component causes and for the completion of each sufficient cause. Component causes that affect risk should occur no later than the start of the risk period. Sufficient causes should be allowed to have component causes in common. When individuals experience all components of two or more sufficient causes, the outcome must be recurrent. In addition to effects on rates and risks, effects on incidence time itself should be considered.
- Date of publication
- August 24, 2010
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- Resource type
- Article
- Rights statement
- In Copyright
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- Charles Poole et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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- Journal title
- Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations
- Journal volume
- 7
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 6
- Language
- English
- Is the article or chapter peer-reviewed?
- Yes
- ISSN
- 1742-5573
- Bibliographic citation
- Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations. 2010 Aug 24;7(1):6
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- BioMed Central Ltd
- Access right
- Open Access
- Date uploaded
- August 23, 2012
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