Antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes: The hazards of adjustment

Mitchell J. Schwaber; Yehuda Carmeli

doi:10.1186/cc5019

Antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes: The hazards of adjustment

Mitchell J. Schwaber^*, Yehuda Carmeli

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Abstract

Outcomes studies of infections with resistant bacteria often do not account appropriately for intermediate variables - events in the causal pathway between the exposure and the outcome - when controlling for confounders. We discuss how failure to distinguish between confounders and intermediate variables can bias the analysis, and we address methods of approaching this issue.

Original language	English
Article number	164
Journal	Critical Care
Volume	10
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/cc5019
State	Published - 5 Sep 2006
Externally published	Yes

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Antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes: The hazards of adjustment

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