What’s new in the quantification of causal effects from longitudinal cohort studies: A brief introduction to marginal structural models for intensivists

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 576-579

  Bailly, S ^a,b   Pirracchio, R ^c,d   Timsit, J F ^b,e  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SEPSIS; STRUCTURAL MODEL;

COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; SEPSIS;

EID: 85015748675     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3919-6     Document Type: Article

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