"I would recommend this book to instructors of epidemiological design courses. It provides enough explanation and depth and discusses the positive and negative attributes of the case-control method. It provides a contemporary look at case-control studies and does not duplicate fundamentals in other books. It easily could be adopted and use in courses. It is a very useful publication for the understanding and application of this foremost design inepidemiology."--Doody's

• 1. From Case Investigation to the Case-Control Method ; 2. Problem Investigation and Inferences Using the Case-Control Method ; 3. Avoiding Bias in Case and Control Selection ; 4. Avoiding Information Bias in Exposure Assessment ; 5. Alternative Case-Based Designs ; 6. Analysis of Case-Control Data ; 7. Applications: Outbreak Investigation ; 8. Genetic Epidemiology for Case-Based Designs ; 9. Applications: Evaluation ; 10. Applications: Evaluation of Screening Programs ; 11. Other Applications