Estimating Causal Effects of New Treatments Despite Self-Selection: The Case of Experimental Medical Treatments
Providing terminally ill patients with access to experimental treatments, as allowed by recent “right to try” laws and “expanded access” programs, poses a variety of ethical questions. While practitioners and investigators may assume it is impossible to learn the effects of these treatment without r...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2018-0019 |