Selection Bias

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"Selection Bias" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The introduction of error due to systematic differences in the characteristics between those selected and those not selected for a given study. In sampling bias, error is the result of failure to ensure that all members of the reference population have a known chance of selection in the sample.

Descriptor ID	D015983
MeSH Number(s)	N05.715.350.150.775 N06.850.490.500.500
Concept/Terms	Selection Bias Selection Bias Bias, Selection Selection Biases Biases, Selection Sampling Error Sampling Error Error, Sampling Errors, Sampling Sampling Errors Sampling Bias Sampling Bias Bias, Sampling Sampling Biases Biases, Sampling

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Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Epidemiologic Factors [N05.715.350]
Bias [N05.715.350.150]
Selection Bias [N05.715.350.150.775]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Factors [N06.850.490]
Bias [N06.850.490.500]
Selection Bias [N06.850.490.500.500]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	1	1
2000	1	0	1
2004	0	1	1
2005	0	3	3
2007	0	1	1
2009	0	1	1
2010	1	0	1
2012	1	0	1
2013	0	1	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	0	2	2
2016	1	1	2
2017	0	1	1
2018	0	1	1
2019	0	1	1
2021	0	1	1

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Dick AS, Lopez DA, Watts AL, Heeringa S, Reuter C, Bartsch H, Fan CC, Kennedy DN, Palmer C, Marshall A, Haist F, Hawes S, Nichols TE, Barch DM, Jernigan TL, Garavan H, Grant S, Pariyadath V, Hoffman E, Neale M, Stuart EA, Paulus MP, Sher KJ, Thompson WK. Meaningful associations in the adolescent brain cognitive development study. Neuroimage. 2021 10 01; 239:118262.

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Pellegrini VD, Eikelboom J, McCollister Evarts C, Franklin PD, Goldhaber SZ, Iorio R, Lambourne CA, Magaziner JS, Magder LS. Selection Bias, Orthopaedic Style: Knowing What We Don't Know About Aspirin. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2020 Apr 01; 102(7):631-633.

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Naimi TS, Stadtmueller LA, Chikritzhs T, Stockwell T, Zhao J, Britton A, Saitz R, Sherk A. Alcohol, Age, and Mortality: Estimating Selection Bias Due to Premature Death. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2019 01; 80(1):63-68.

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Tamers SL, Goetzel R, Kelly KM, Luckhaupt S, Nigam J, Pronk NP, Rohlman DS, Baron S, Brosseau LM, Bushnell T, Campo S, Chang CC, Childress A, Chosewood LC, Cunningham T, Goldenhar LM, Huang TT, Hudson H, Linnan L, Newman LS, Olson R, Ozminkowski RJ, Punnett L, Schill A, Scholl J, Sorensen G. Research Methodologies for Total Worker Health?: Proceedings From a Workshop. J Occup Environ Med. 2018 11; 60(11):968-978.

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de Geus SWL, Eskander MF, Kasumova GG, Ng SC, Kent TS, Mancias JD, Callery MP, Mahadevan A, Tseng JF. Stereotactic body radiotherapy for unresected pancreatic cancer: A nationwide review. Cancer. 2017 Nov 01; 123(21):4158-4167.

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Hunnicutt JN, Ulbricht CM, Chrysanthopoulou SA, Lapane KL. Probabilistic bias analysis in pharmacoepidemiology and comparative effectiveness research: a systematic review. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2016 12; 25(12):1343-1353.

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Whitcomb BW, McArdle PF. Collider-stratification Bias Due to Censoring in Prospective Cohort Studies. Epidemiology. 2016 Mar; 27(2):e4-5.

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Mayo-Wilson E, Hutfless S, Li T, Gresham G, Fusco N, Ehmsen J, Heyward J, Vedula S, Lock D, Haythornthwaite J, Payne JL, Cowley T, Tolbert E, Rosman L, Twose C, Stuart EA, Hong H, Doshi P, Suarez-Cuervo C, Singh S, Dickersin K. Integrating multiple data sources (MUDS) for meta-analysis to improve patient-centered outcomes research: a protocol. Syst Rev. 2015 11 02; 4:143.

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Arvold ND, Tanguturi SK, Aizer AA, Wen PY, Reardon DA, Lee EQ, Nayak L, Christianson LW, Horvath MC, Dunn IF, Golby AJ, Johnson MD, Claus EB, Chiocca EA, Ligon KL, Alexander BM. Hypofractionated versus standard radiation therapy with or without temozolomide for older glioblastoma patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2015 Jun 01; 92(2):384-9.

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Setoguchi S, Warner Stevenson L, Stewart GC, Bhatt DL, Epstein AE, Desai M, Williams LA, Chen CY. Influence of healthy candidate bias in assessing clinical effectiveness for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: cohort study of older patients with heart failure. BMJ. 2014 May 08; 348:g2866.

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