Should we adjust for a confounder if empirical and theoretical criteria yield contradictory results? a simulation study

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  • who: SUBJECT AREAS and colleagues from the School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University have published the research: Should we adjust for a confounder if empirical and theoretical criteria yield contradictory results? A simulation study, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 13/05/2014
  • how: The simulation results showed that if a well-established confounding effect is not observed in a dataset the results should be interpreted with caution because the exposure-outcome association obtained from the dataset is likely to be biased.
  • future: Other forms of confounding for instance confounding by a categorical . . .

     

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