A Control or "No Disease" Group Is Needed for Study

question 12

Multiple Choice

A control or "no disease" group is needed for study on risk factors associated with oral cancer. The nurses conducting the study decide to use a group of patients with skin cancer as their controls because these patients are at the same facility. Having another type of cancer could itself be a risk factor and is a potential limitation in the study. This variable, having another type of cancer, would be called a(n) :

• A)Confounder.
• B)Right censoring.
• C)Case-control.
• D)Odds ratio.

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