THE B-FILES (BIAS CASE STUDIES)

Case studies of bias in real life epidemiologic studies
By: Madhukar Pai & Jay S. Kaufman

Bias File 1. The Rise and Fall of Hormone Replacement Therapy Bias File 2. Should we stop drinking coffee? The story of coffee and pancreatic cancer Bias File 3. Émile Durkheim and the ecological fallacy Bias File 4. The early controversy over estrogen and endometrial cancer Bias File 5. How blind are the blind? The story of Vitamin C for common cold Bias File 6. Double whammy: recall and selection bias in case-control studies of congenital malformations Bias File 7. Confounding by indication: a most stubborn bias? Bias File 8. Don’t call my number, anymore! Bias in surveys of sexual behavior Bias File 9. Circumcision and HIV