ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2014
Invited commentary: composite outcomes as an attempt to escape from selection bias and related paradoxes.
Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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Abstract
This commentary reviews the recent history of explanations to crossover paradoxes such as the birth weight and gestational age paradoxes, with a special emphasis on the current proposal by Kramer et al. in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(3):361-367). We contend that the causal structure of these paradoxes is essentially identical to that of several well-known selection biases. We then consider the pros and cons of using composite outcomes to circumvent these selection biases.
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