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healthy volunteer effect: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

the tendency of people who volunteer for studies or screening to be healthier than the general population, lowering observed mortality and disease rates.

In epidemiology, healthy volunteer effect refers to the tendency of people who volunteer for studies or screening to be healthier than the general population, lowering observed mortality and disease rates. This meaning comes from Pinsky (2007) in American Journal of Epidemiology.[1]

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References

Pinsky, P., Miller, A., Kramer, B., Church, T., Reding, D., Prorok, P., Gelmann, E., Schoen, R., Buys, S., Hayes, R., & Berg, C. (2007). Evidence of a Healthy Volunteer Effect in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial. American Journal of Epidemiology, 165(8), 874-881. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwk075

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