Healthy user bias
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healthy-user-bias-287-8780154
title:
Healthy user bias
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The healthy user bias or healthy worker bias is a bias that can damage the validity of epidemiologic studies testing the efficacy of particular therapies or interventions. Specifically, it is a sampling bias or selection bias: the kind of subjects that take up an intervention, including by enrolling in a clinical trial, are not representative of the general population. People who volunteer for a study can be expected, on average, to be healthier than people who don't volunteer, as they are conce
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of research bias
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_user_bias
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date modified:
2024-02-21T19:14:50Z
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