Benefits of ICU admission in critically ill patients: Whether instrumental variable methods or propensity scores should be used

BACKGROUND: The assessment of the causal effect of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission generally involves usual observational designs and thus requires controlling for confounding variables. Instrumental variable analysis is an econometric technique that allows causal inferences of the effectiveness...

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Autores principales: Pirracchio, Romain, Sprung, Charles, Payen, Didier, Chevret, Sylvie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21936926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-132

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21936926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-132

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