Counterintuitive results from observational data: a case study and discussion

The finding of an association between increased pain and improved outcomes was unexpected and clinically counterintuitive. In an increasingly digitised age of medical big data, such results are likely to become more common. The reliability of such counterintuitive results must be carefully examined....

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Main Authors: Doty, Erik (Author), Stone, David J (Author), McCague, Ned (Author), Celi, Leo Anthony G. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ, 2020-03-25T03:45:19Z.
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