The logistic regression model is frequently used in epidemiologic studies, yielding odds ratio or relative risk interpretations. Inspired by the theory of linear normal models, the logistic regression model has been extended to allow for correlated responses by introducing random effects. However, the model does not inherit the interpretational features of the normal model. In this paper, the a...

The aim of this study was to examine the evidence for hospital follow up of breast cancer survivors and to identify patient preferences for hospital or community follow-up. We surveyed General Practitioner attitudes towards community follow-up and quantified the incidence of new or recurrent cancers within a patient cohort to identify their primary symptoms and thus cancer detection in the comm...