Collider bias in trauma comparative effectiveness research: The stratification blues for systematic reviews

Injury

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 775-780

  Del Junco, Deborah J ^a   Bulger, Eileen M ^b   Fox, Erin E ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a   Brasel, Karen J ^c   Hoyt, David B ^d   Grady, James J ^e   Duran, Sarah ^a   Klotz, Patricia ^b   Dubick, Michael A ^f   Wade, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^f US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Comparative effectiveness research; Massive transfusion; Observational; Randomised clinical trial; Resuscitation; Subgroup; Survival; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLLIDER BIAS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INJURY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; LITERATURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; HUMANS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84929914472     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.01.043     Document Type: Article

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