Recruiting controls from an online panel for a case-control study enabled a timely and reliable foodborne Salmonella outbreak investigation, Germany 2021
Creators
- 1. ECDC Fellowship Programme, Field Epidemiology path (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
- 2. Public Health Agency of Lower Saxony, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Germany
- 3. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Description
The following data have been used to conduct the analysis that is reported in the "Recruiting controls from an online panel for a case-control study enabled a timely and reliable foodborne Salmonella outbreak investigation, Germany 2021" manuscript:
1. Complete dataset: contains the individual-level data collected among cases (n=32), classical (n=110) and HuGO panel controls (n=156)
2. FM_Hugo_controls: contains the random selections of individual-level data collected among the HuGO panel members to perform frequency matching on sex and age groups (n=81)
3. Codebook: contains description and coding of the variables