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Agreement between Women's Histories of Oral Contraceptive Use and Physician Records

MICHAEL J ROSENBERG, PETER M LAYDE, HOWARD W ORY, LILO T STRAUSS, JUDITH BOURNE ROOKS and GEORGE L RUBIN

US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA

Reprint requests should be addressed to Dr Layde, Epidemiologic Studies Branch, Family Planning Evaluation Division, Centers for Disease Control. Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA

The histories of oral contraceptive (OC) use provided by women participating in a study of hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) were compared with records obtained from their physicians. In the HCA study, two memory aids were used to assist women in their recall: a calendar of significant events during a woman's lifetime to which she might relate her use of OCs and a book of colour photographs of the 90 OC preparations available up to the time of the study. Using the number of months of a woman's history which could be checked against physician records (mean for all women of 33 months) as the denominator, the highest proportion of concordance was for month-specific duration of OC use (90%) with lower agreement for duration and brand (62%) and duration, brand, and dose (54%). Agreement was better for cases than for controls.


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