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ArticleClinical epidemiology2018

Attributing diseases to multiple pathways: a causal-pie modeling approach.

Christine Chen, Wen-Chung Lee

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Article in Clinical epidemiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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2 authors.

Christine ChenInstitute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Wen-Chung LeeInstitute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Characterizing the relations between exposures and diseases is the central tenet of epidemiology. Researchers may want to evaluate exposure-disease causation by assessing whether the disease under concern is induced by the various exposures - the so-called "attribution". In this paper, the authors propose a method to attribute diseases to multiple pathways based on the causal-pie model. The method can also be used to evaluate the potential impact of an intervention strategy and to allocate responsibility in tort-law liability issues.

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attributioncausal-pie modeldisease pathwaysepidemiological methods

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PMID29740220
PMCPMC5931201

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