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confounding
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Tylenol, antibiotics and asthma risk: Confounding by indication case study 3
I’ve discussed in previous blog posts ways in which confounding by indication can completely change the way observational research is…
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Confounding by indication case study 2: Hormonal contraception and risk of depression
I wrote in a previous blog about the importance of understanding confounding by indication and being sure to ask researchers…
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Confounding by indication case study 1: Induction of labor and cesarean delivery risk
One of the biggest challenges in teasing out possible causation or directionality of an exposure and an observed phenomenon, it’s…
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Tip sheet series to focus on red flags to look for in medical studies
With thousands of medical studies published every day, it’s impossible to cover even 1 percent of them. When you can…