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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias
Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias

Preferred term

Bias  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Biase, Epidemiologic
  • Bias, Epidemiologic
  • Biases
  • Biases, Epidemiologic
  • Epidemiologic Biase
  • Epidemiologic Biases

Note

  • IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol, not /etiol; add geographic term if pertinent; do not use for "bias" as prejudice or subjectivity (= PREJUDICE or specifics)

Scope note

  • Any deviation of results or inferences from the truth, or processes leading to such deviation. Bias can result from several sources: one-sided or systematic variations in measurement from the true value (systematic error); flaws in study design; deviation of inferences, interpretations, or analyses based on flawed data or data collection; etc. There is no sense of prejudice or subjectivity implied in the assessment of bias under these conditions.

History note

  • 2018(1990); use Research 1987-1989

In other languages

  • vinouma

    Finnish

  • epidemiologinen harha
  • epidemiologiset harhat
  • poikkeama
  • poikkeamat
  • tutkimusmenetelmästä johtuva virheellinen tulos
  • tutkimusmenetelmästä johtuvat virheelliset tulokset
  • vinoumat
  • Bias

    Swedish

  • Ekologisk bias
  • Epidemiologisk bias
  • Resultatmätningsfel
  • Statistisk bias
  • Systematisk bias
  • Systematiskt fel

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015982

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