Oral Contraceptive Use and Ovarian Cancer

Case Study Title
Oral Contraceptive Use and Ovarian Cancer

Setting
across United States

Type of Agent
Biological

Specific Agent
oral contraceptives

Modes of Transmission

Competencies Addressed
Public health literature

Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Learning Objectives

1. Outline the sequence of an epidemiologic analysis.
2. Discuss the biases of particular concern in case-control studies and ways to minimize their influence.
3. Describe why and when to use crude and adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals, and how to interpret them.
4. Define and recognize effet modification and confounding.

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