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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 131, No. 1: 1-5
Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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RANDOM DIGIT DIALING FOR CONTROL SELECTION

A REVIEW AND A CAUTION ON ITS USE IN STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD CANCER

E. R. GREENBERG

Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Medicine, and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Hanover, NH

Reprint requests to Dr. E. Robert Greenberg. Dartmouth Medical School, Hinman Box 7927, Hanover, NH 03756

Random digit dialing is an effective method for creating a probability sample of households for telephone interviews. Epidemiologists have successfully used the technique to select controls for population-based case-control studies. However, a modified version of random digit dialing used in some institution-based studies of childhood cancer etiology involves a selection process which is biased against children from families with closely spaced births. The author discusses alternative approaches to reducing this bias in control group selection.

child; epidemiologic methods; neoplasms


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