@Article{Miettinen1999, author = "Miettinen, O. S.", title = "Etiologic research: needed revisions of concepts and principles", journal = "Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health", year = "1999", month = "Dec", day = "25", number = "6", pages = "484--490", keywords = "case-control study; cohort study; confounding; etiologic study; matching", abstract = "
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.
", issn = "0355-3140", doi = "10.5271/sjweh.470", url = "https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=470", url = "https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.470" }