Investigation of bias due to loss of participants in a Dutch multicentre prospective spinal cord injury cohort study

OBJECTIVE: To determine bias due to loss of participants (attrition bias) in a prospective cohort study. DESIGN: A multi-centre prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: A total of 225 individuals with a spinal cord injury from 8 Dutch rehabilitation centres. METHODS: Participants were considered non-participants when no information was collected at the measurement one year after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation. Using bivariate tests participants and non-participants were compared regarding personal, lesion, function and functional characteristics determined at the beginning of inpatient reh... Mehr ...

Verfasser: de Groot, Sonja
Haisma, Janneke A
Post, Marcel W M
van Asbeck, Floris W A
van der Woude, Lucas H V
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Reihe/Periodikum: de Groot , S , Haisma , J A , Post , M W M , van Asbeck , F W A & van der Woude , L H V 2009 , ' Investigation of bias due to loss of participants in a Dutch multicentre prospective spinal cord injury cohort study ' , Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine , vol. 41 , no. 5 , pp. 382-9 . https://doi.org/10.2340/16501977-0346
Schlagwörter: Activities of Daily Living / Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Bias (Epidemiology) / Cohort Studies / Female / Follow-Up Studies / Humans / Longitudinal Studies / Male / Middle Aged / Outcome Assessment (Health Care) / Patient Dropouts / Patient Participation / Prospective Studies / Spinal Cord Injuries / Young Adult
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://hdl.handle.net/11370/8e67285a-41bd-40b6-8d95-c575b294440c