Selection Bias

"Selection Bias" 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.

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The introduction of error due to systematic differences in the characteristics between those selected and those not selected for a given study. In sampling bias, error is the result of failure to ensure that all members of the reference population have a known chance of selection in the sample.

Descriptor ID	D015983
MeSH Number(s)	N05.715.350.150.775 N06.850.490.500.500
Concept/Terms	Selection Bias Selection Bias Bias, Selection Selection Biases Biases, Selection Sampling Error Sampling Error Error, Sampling Errors, Sampling Sampling Errors Sampling Bias Sampling Bias Bias, Sampling Sampling Biases Biases, Sampling

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Selection Bias".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Epidemiologic Factors [N05.715.350]
Bias [N05.715.350.150]
Selection Bias [N05.715.350.150.775]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Factors [N06.850.490]
Bias [N06.850.490.500]
Selection Bias [N06.850.490.500.500]

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Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2004 and 2007 and 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2004	1	1	2
2005	0	1	1
2007	0	2	2
2008	0	1	1
2009	0	1	1
2010	0	1	1
2019	0	1	1
2020	0	2	2
2021	0	1	1

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Goldstein ND, Kahal D, Testa K, Burstyn I. Inverse probability weighting for selection bias in a Delaware community health center electronic medical record study of community deprivation and hepatitis C prevalence. Ann Epidemiol. 2021 08; 60:1-7.

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Minneci PC, Hade EM, Lawrence AE, Sebasti?o YV, Saito JM, Mak GZ, Fox C, Hirschl RB, Gadepalli S, Helmrath MA, Kohler JE, Leys CM, Sato TT, Lal DR, Landman MP, Kabre R, Fallat ME, Cooper JN, Deans KJ. Association of Nonoperative Management Using Antibiotic Therapy vs Laparoscopic Appendectomy With Treatment Success and Disability Days in Children With Uncomplicated Appendicitis. JAMA. 2020 08 11; 324(6):581-593.

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Mavian C, Pond SK, Marini S, Magalis BR, Vandamme AM, Dellicour S, Scarpino SV, Houldcroft C, Villabona-Arenas J, Paisie TK, Trov?o NS, Boucher C, Zhang Y, Scheuermann RH, Gascuel O, Lam TT, Suchard MA, Abecasis A, Wilkinson E, de Oliveira T, Bento AI, Schmidt HA, Martin D, Hadfield J, Faria N, Grubaugh ND, Neher RA, Baele G, Lemey P, Stadler T, Albert J, Crandall KA, Leitner T, Stamatakis A, Prosperi M, Salemi M. Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 06 09; 117(23):12522-12523.

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Cully M, Thompson AD, Depiero AD. Potential selection bias when subjects were excluded because of missing values. Am J Emerg Med. 2020 03; 38(3):681-682.

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del Portal DA, Shofer F, Mikkelsen ME, Dorsey PJ, Gaieski DF, Goyal M, Synnestvedt M, Weiner MG, Pines JM. Emergency department lactate is associated with mortality in older adults admitted with and without infections. Acad Emerg Med. 2010 Mar; 17(3):260-8.

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Simon RM, Paik S, Hayes DF. Use of archived specimens in evaluation of prognostic and predictive biomarkers. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2009 Nov 04; 101(21):1446-52.

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Rising K, Bacchetti P, Bero L. Reporting bias in drug trials submitted to the Food and Drug Administration: review of publication and presentation. PLoS Med. 2008 Nov 25; 5(11):e217; discussion e217.

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Nho SJ, Shindle MK, Sherman SL, Freedman KB, Lyman S, MacGillivray JD. Systematic review of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair and mini-open rotator cuff repair. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2007 Oct; 89 Suppl 3:127-36.

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Falkner B. What exactly do the trends mean? Circulation. 2007 Sep 25; 116(13):1437-9.

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Katolik LI, Romeo AA, Cole BJ, Verma NN, Hayden JK, Bach BR. Normalization of the Constant score. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2005 May-Jun; 14(3):279-85.

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