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Methodologic Issues of Case-Control Studies: A Review of Established and Newly Recognized Limitations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Erika M. C. D'Agata
Erika M. C. D'Agata*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, 330 Brookline Ave., East Campus Mailstop SL-435G, Boston, MA 02215edagata@bidmc.harvard.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 2005 , pp. 338 - 341
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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