Understanding the mechanism: Mediation analysis in randomized and nonrandomized studies

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 980-994

  Mascha, Edward J ^a   Dalton, Jarrod E ^a   Kurz, Andrea ^a   Saager, Leif ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STATISTICS; TEACHING ROUND; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; NEGOTIATING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TEACHING ROUNDS;

EID: 84885020953     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182a44cb9     Document Type: Article

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