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- Title
Selection of Neighborhood Controls for a Population-Based Lyme Disease Case-Control Study by Using a Commercial Marketing Database.
- Authors
Connally, Neeta P.; Yousey-Hindes, Kimberly; Meek, James
- Abstract
The selection of controls is an important methodological consideration for case-control studies. Neighborhood-matched control selection is particularly crucial for studies of vector-borne disease, such as Lyme disease, for which risk is intrinsically linked to geographical location. The matching of case-control pairs on neighborhood can help control for variation in ecological risk factors that are tied to geographical location, like vector and host habitat in the peridomestic environment. Random-digit dialing has been used to find neighborhood controls by using the area code and exchange of the case to generate lists of potential control households. An alternative to random-digit dialing is the purchase of residential telephone numbers from a commercial marketing database. This report describes the utility of the InfoUSA.com (InfoGroup, Papillion, Nebraska) commercial marketing database for neighborhood control recruitment in a Lyme disease case-control study in Connecticut during 2005–2007.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; CASE-control method; LYME disease prevention; RISK factors of environmental exposure; PATIENT selection; EPIDEMIOLOGY research methodology; DISEASE vectors; DATABASES; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; MARKETING; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; TELEPHONES; DATA analysis; RESIDENTIAL patterns; HUMAN research subjects
- Publication
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2013, Vol 178, Issue 2, p276
- ISSN
0002-9262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/aje/kws464