title: Selecting appropriate study designs to address specific research questions in occupational epidemiology.
abstract: Various epidemiological study designs are available to investigate illness and injury risks related to workplace exposures. The choice of study design to address a particular research question will be guided by the nature of the health outcome under study, its presumed relation to workplace exposures, and feasibility constraints. This review summarises the relative advantages and limitations of conventional study designs including cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, repeated measures studies, case-control (industry- and community-based) studies, and more recently developed variants of the nested case-control
  
  
  METHODS
  case-cohort and case-crossover studies.
authors: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. checko@u.washington.edu.
authors: Harvey
authors: H
authors: Checkoway
authors: Neil
authors: N
authors: Pearce
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Kriebel
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases; D016272:Occupational Health; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*
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