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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 58, 期 1, 页码 13-19出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.05.006
关键词
attrition; drop-out; elderly; longitudinal; bias; population-based studies
Objectives: Longitudinal studies of the elderly are complicated by the loss of individuals between waves due to death or other dropout mechanisms. Factors that affect dropout may well be similar from one study to another. This article systematically reviews ail large population-based studies of the elderly (published 1966-2002) that report on differences in individual characteristics between people who remain and people who dropout at follow-up. Study Design and Setting: A systematic review of articles that investigate attrition after baseline interview. Results: Twelve studies were found that investigated dropout other than death using unadjusted, multivariable methods or both. The unadjusted analyses showed many significant factors related to attrition. Multivariable analyses showed two main independent factors were related to increased attrition: increasing age and cognitive impairment. People who were very ill or frail had higher dropout rates, and people in worse health were less likely to be recontactable. Conclusions: Multivariable methods of analyzing attrition in longitudinal studies show consistent patterns of dropout between differing studies, with a small number of key relationships. These findings will assist researchers when planning Studies of older people, and provide insight into the possible biases in longitudinal studies introduced by differential dropout. (C) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights
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