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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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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 |