Review paper

Causal inference for clinicians

Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 109 - 112
Published: Feb 14, 2019
Abstract
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) calls on clinicians to incorporate the ‘best available evidence’ into clinical decision-making. For decisions regarding treatment, the best evidence is that which determines the causal effect of treatments on the clinical outcomes of interest. Unfortunately, research often provides evidence where associations are not due to cause-and-effect, but rather due to non-causal reasons. These non-causal associations may...
Paper Details
Title
Causal inference for clinicians
Published Date
Feb 14, 2019
Volume
24
Issue
3
Pages
109 - 112
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