Specifying a target trial prevents immortal time bias and other self-inflicted injuries in observational analyses
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- 27 May 2016
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Vol. 79, 70-75
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.04.014
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