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Social & Preventive Medicine Confounding and Bias 692dc592

Allowing equal interview time to cases and controls can reduce which of the following bias?

A
Berkesonian bias
B
Recall bias
C
Selection bias
D
Interviewer bias
High-Yield Explanation
Bias: - Type of systematic error. - Subject bias - Recall bias ; Hawthorn bias . - Investigatory bias: Interviewer bias, selection bias, misclassification bias. Allowing equal time for interview can take care of interviewer bias to some extent. Interviewer bias happens in case-control studies where the interviewer knows about the disease status of the person and probes more for exposure amongst cases as compared to controls. - Analyzer bias : Calculation bias - not seen now a days.

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