Pragmatic trials: ignoring a mediator and adjusting for confounding
Abstract Objectives In pragmatic trials, the new treatment is compared with usual care (heterogeneous control arm) that makes the comparison of the new treatment with each treatment within the control arm more difficult. The usual assumption is that we can fully capture the relations between differe...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Research Notes |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13104-019-4188-1 |