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Counterpoint: Epidemiology to Guide Decision-Making: Moving Away From Practice-Free Research

Author(s) -

Miguel A. Hernán

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

american journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33

H-Index - 256

eISSN - 1476-6256

pISSN - 0002-9262

DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwv215

Subject(s) - counterpoint , observational study , synchronizing , epidemiology , medical decision making , medicine , contrast (vision) , clinical decision making , management science , intensive care medicine , psychology , family medicine , computer science , pathology , artificial intelligence , engineering , telecommunications , pedagogy , transmission (telecommunications)

Analyses of observational data aimed at supporting decision-making are ideally framed as a contrast between well-defined treatment strategies. These analyses compare individuals' outcomes from the start of the treatment strategies under consideration. Exceptions to this synchronizing of the start of follow-up and the treatment strategies may be justified on a case-by-case basis.

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