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ArticleThe Journal of surgical research2022

A Clinician's Guide to Conducting Research on Causal Effects.

Vivian H Lyons, Jamaica Rm Robinson, Brianna Mills, Elizabeth Y Killien, Stephen J Mooney

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Article in The Journal of surgical research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Vivian H LyonsDepartment of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Jamaica Rm RobinsonDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Brianna MillsHarborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Elizabeth Y KillienHarborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Electronic address: elizabeth.killien@seattlechildrens.org.
Stephen J MooneyHarborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

Funding

Biostatistics, Epidemiologic & Bioinformatic Training in Environmental HealthT32ES015459 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI June T. Spector · 2009 to 2026
$10.6M
NRSA Training CoreTL1TR002318 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Megan Moore · 2017 to 2026
$8.4M
Building Research Capacity for Firearm Safety Among ChildrenR24HD087149 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CUNNINGHAM, REBECCA M., ZIMMERMAN, MARC A · 2017 to 2021
$4.9M
Pediatric Injury Research Training ProgramT32HD057822 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI CAROLYN A MC CARTY, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar · 2010 to 2026
$4.0M
Contributing Factors and Consequences of Cancer Health DisparitiesT32CA094880 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Christopher I Li, AMANDA IRENE PHIPPS · 2017 to 2026
$3.7M
The Weill Cornell Medicine Research Training Program in Behavioral GeriatricsT32AG049666 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI SARA J CZAJA, Manney Carrington Reid · 2016 to 2026
$3.2M
Training Program in Cancer-related Population SciencesT32CA094061 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI NEUGUT, ALFRED I., TERRY, MARY BETH · 2017 to 2021
$1.1M
Clinical factors associated with long-term recovery following pediatric critical illness and injuryK23HD100566 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KILLIEN, ELIZABETH Y · 2021 to 2025
$792k
The Automatic Context Measurement Tool: bringing environmental data to non-specialistsK99LM012868 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MOONEY, STEPHEN JOHN · 2018 to 2018
$127k
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR002318NCI NIH HHS T32 CA094061NCI NIH HHS T32 CA094880NIA NIH HHS T32 AG049666NICHD NIH HHS K23 HD100566NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD087149NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD057822NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES015459NLM NIH HHS K99 LM012868
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgeons are uniquely poised to conduct research to improve patient care, yet a gap often exists between the clinician's desire to guide patient care with causal evidence and having adequate training necessary to produce causal evidence. This guide aims to address this gap by providing clinically relevant examples to illustrate necessary assumptions required for clinical research to produce causal estimates.

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CausalityHumansAcademic surgeryCausalityClinical researchEpidemiological research design

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PMID35598499
PMCPMC9444568

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