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Antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes: the hazards of adjustment

Outcomes studies of infections with resistant bacteria often do not account appropriately for intermediate variables – events in the causal pathway between the exposure and the outcome – when controlling for confounders. We discuss how failure to distinguish between confounders and intermediate vari...

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Autores principales: Schwaber, Mitchell J, Carmeli, Yehuda
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1751076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16982010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc5019