"Confounding Factors (Epidemiology)" 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.
Factors that can cause or prevent the outcome of interest but are not intermediate variables of the factor(s) under investigation.
| Descriptor ID |
D015986
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N05.715.350.240 N06.850.490.718
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| Concept/Terms |
Confounding Factors (Epidemiology)- Confounding Factors (Epidemiology)
- Confounding Factor (Epidemiology)
- Factor, Confounding (Epidemiology)
- Factors, Confounding (Epidemiology)
- Confounding Factor, Epidemiologic
- Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic
- Epidemiologic Confounding Factor
- Epidemiologic Confounding Factors
- Confounding Variables
- Confounding Variable
- Variable, Confounding
- Variables, Confounding
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