%0 Journal Article %T Etiologic research: needed revisions of concepts and principles %A Miettinen, O. S. %J Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health %D 1999 %8 December 25 %N 6 %@ 0355-3140 %F Miettinen1999 %X

Even though etiologic research has been the central concern in academic epidemiology, its concepts have remained confused or malformed, starting from that of etiology itself; and the same applies to its principles, starting from the notion that the principal variants of an etiologic study are the 'cohort' study and the 'case-control' study. This article suggests revisions of some central concepts pertaining to the object (and objective) of an etiologic study, and it posits an updated conception of the essence - singular - the study itself. This is supplemented by some novel, yet merely orientational, propositions in respect to quality-assurance in etiologic research.

%K case-control study %K cohort study %K confounding %K etiologic study %K matching %R 10.5271/sjweh.470 %U https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=470 %U https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.470 %P 484-490