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Other methods such as instrumental variable analysis are being employed to enable stronger causal inference but these methods also require fulfillment of several key assumptions that may or may not be realistic.
This example illustrates that features well described by the one-fast/two-slow variable analysis are not at all well described by a standard two-fast/one-slow variable analysis.
Results from the single variable analysis are shown in Table 4 and ribotype 027, sex, discharge from hospital within 60 days of current admission, gastroenteritis on admission, number of initiator antibiotics for CDAD, and hospital where the patient was admitted were included in the model.
5 Cox regression analysis, propensity-score-based analysis and instrumental variable analysis are methods that have been used for correction of confounding bias in non-randomised studies.
Study designs such as the self-controlled case-series or instrumental variable analysis are not formally recognised in the hierarchy of evidence, however, we have considered these studies as they attempt to account for the common problem of unmeasured confounding in observational studies.
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Although neither propensity score analysis nor instrumental variable analysis is perfect for a robust assessment, consistent results from instrumental variable analysis may serve as a useful confirmatory analysis for propensity score analyses.
All analyses (except haplotype construction and instrumental variable analysis) were performed with SAS statistical software, version 9.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, USA).
A single variable analysis was performed.
Variables with a p value <0.1 from the single-risk variable analysis were included initially.
Instrumental variable analysis is an increasingly popular statistical method in epidemiologic research.
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