Background: Observational studies that examine the comparative effectiveness of healthcare services often face challenges in controlling for confounding by indication. This study examines whether ...

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Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to: Dr T Blakely Department of Public Health, Wellington ...

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Abstract: Unmeasured confounding is a major source of skepticism about the validity of findings in observational studies. To address this issue, negative control methods and proximal causal inference ...