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Epidemiology

bias in which an exposure leads to more medical attention, so disease is detected more often among the exposed rather than truly occurring more often.

In epidemiology, detection bias refers to bias in which an exposure leads to more medical attention, so disease is detected more often among the exposed rather than truly occurring more often. This meaning comes from Horwitz (1978) in New England Journal of Medicine.[1]

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attention5 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, five constructs bias6 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs exposure6 fields · 13 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Horwitz, R. I., & Feinstein, A. R. (1978). Alternative Analytic Methods for Case-Control Studies of Estrogens and Endometrial Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 299(20), 1089-1094. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197811162992001

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