On causation in therapeutic research: Observational studies, randomised experiments and instrumental variable analysis

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 239-241

  Dekkers, Olaf M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Counterfactuals; Therapeutic research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTERFACTUAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; THEORY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; OBSERVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION;

EID: 80955163680     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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