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Methodologic Issues in Hospital Epidemiology. IV. Risk Ratios, Confounding, Effect Modification, and the Analysis of Multiple Variables

Jonathan Freeman, Donald A. Goldmann and John E. McGowan, Jr. Most information in hospital epidemiology comes from observational studies of hospitalized patients, not from planned experiments. Data ...
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Study explains confounding effects of different dosages and dosing protocols on COVID-19 vaccine efficacies

A recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv* investigates the paradoxical effects of dosage and dosing interval on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine efficacy (VE). To this end, ...
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Confounding effects of clonal hematopoiesis in clinical genomic profiling of solid tumors.

Prevalence of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) measured by an ultra-sensitive sequencing assay: Exploratory analysis of the Circulating Cancer Genome Atlas (CCGA) study. This is ...
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Pre-diabetes and breast cancer outcomes: Abrogating the confounding effect of anti-diabetic therapy.

Male breast cancer as a second primary cancer (SPC): Increased risk following hematologic malignancies. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...
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Evaluating Short-Term Drug Effects Using a Physician-Specific Prescribing Preference as an Instrumental Variable

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background: Postmarketing observational studies of the safety and effectiveness of prescription medications are critically important but ...