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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hazlett Chad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2018-0019