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Subjects were fasted throughout the entire study to remove confounding from meals.
It should be pointed out that we are not relying on adjusting for a variable to remove confounding.
Moreover, previous research has often been limited to small, clinically based samples with limited external generalizability as well as limited multivariable modeling to remove confounding.
Only one study used data from a RCT, 15 and the others differed greatly with respect to the number and types of risk factors used for adjustment, which impacts the ability of the study to remove confounding.
Nevertheless, although aspects of the method's implementation and precise accuracy are not yet fully resolved, further research is clearly indicated given the potential value of a new approach that may advance efforts to remove confounding from nonrandomized treatment effect estimates.
We used causal diagrams to explain why such matching not only fails to remove confounding bias, but also adds colliding bias, and why both types of bias are removed by conditioning on the matched confounder(s).
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The action components were thus temporally separated from the event of interest, i.e., "sound only", to remove confounds of the action.
Still, any lack of specificity in routinely recorded data may have reduced our ability to completely remove confounding.
Residual confounding, which can be viewed as a special case of unmeasured confounding, occurs when controlling for a variable used to measure a confounding factor does not completely remove confounding by that factor.
The fact that the intervention was implemented at different times allowed us to compare QIs both within and between hospitals (hospitals before and after implementation of the policy, as well as hospitals with and without the policy); our fine-tuned case-mix adjustment removed confounding due to differences in the patient population.
Still, any lack of specificity in routinely recorded data may have reduced our ability to completely remove confounding and most likely would attenuate our findings towards the null.
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