ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2021
Diemer and Swanson Reply to "Considerations Before Using Pandemic as Instrument".
Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Abstract
Dimitris and Platt (Am J Epidemiol. 2021;190(11):2275-2279) take on the challenging topic of using "shocks" such as the severe acute respiratory system coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic as instrumental variables to study the effect of some exposure on some outcome. Evoking our recent lived experiences, they conclude that the assumptions necessary for an instrumental variable analysis will often be violated and therefore strongly caution against such analyses. Here, we build upon this warranted caution while acknowledging that such analyses will still be pursued and conducted. We discuss strategies for evaluating or reasoning about when such an analysis is clearly inappropriate for a given research question, as well as strategies for interpreting study findings with special attention to incorporating plausible sources of bias in any conclusions drawn from a given finding.
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