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Bypassing the selection rule in choosing controls for a case-control study.

Keith T Palmer1, Miranda Kim, David Coggon

  • 1Community Clinical Sciences, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. ktp@mrc.soton.ac.uk

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In case-control studies, controls may not need to match the base population of cases, as potential bias was found to be acceptable in this occupational injury study. This finding suggests flexibility in control selection can be justified in certain research scenarios.

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Published on: January 8, 2020

Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Occupational Health

Background:

  • Case-control studies typically require controls to be drawn from the same base population as cases.
  • Deviations from this rule can introduce selection bias, particularly when case and control populations differ in key characteristics like employment status or occupation.
  • Collecting detailed occupational data for controls can be resource-intensive.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To estimate the potential bias introduced by not matching controls to the base population in a study of occupational injury.
  • To assess the impact of differing occupational distributions between cases and controls on risk estimates.
  • To determine if the standard rule for control selection could be justifiably relaxed.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized published data on disease frequencies (diabetes, mental health, asthma, heart disease) in the general population.
  • Incorporated relative risk estimates for these diseases in unemployed vs. employed individuals and manual vs. non-manual occupations.
  • Computed potential over- or underestimation of exposure frequencies and odds ratios (ORs) when controls were selected from the general population.

Main Results:

  • Estimated potential bias in the odds ratio (OR) ranged from a 14% underestimation to a 36.7% overestimation (95th centiles).
  • In less than 6% of simulations did the estimation error exceed 30%.
  • No simulations resulted in an error reaching 50%.

Conclusions:

  • The potential for selection bias was deemed acceptable for detecting substantial risk increases in this specific study.
  • The principle of matching controls to the case base population can be justifiably disregarded in certain circumstances.
  • This research supports flexibility in control selection strategies when bias is manageable.