Problems with evidence assessment in COVID-19 health policy impact evaluation: a systematic review of study design and evidence strength

NA Haber, E Clarke-Deelder, A Feller, ER Smith… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Assessing the impact of COVID-19 policy is critical for informing future policies.
However, there are concerns about the overall strength of COVID-19 impact evaluation …

Federated causal inference in heterogeneous observational data

R Xiong, A Koenecke, M Powell, Z Shen… - Statistics in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We are interested in estimating the effect of a treatment applied to individuals at multiple
sites, where data is stored locally for each site. Due to privacy constraints, individual‐level …

[PDF][PDF] Batch effects are causal effects: applications in human connectomics

EW Bridgeford, M Powell, G Kiar, R Lawrence, B Caffo… - bioRxiv, 2021 - scholar.archive.org
Batch effects, undesirable sources of variance across multiple experiments, present a
substantial hurdle for scientific and clinical discoveries. Specifically, the presence of batch …

[HTML][HTML] Vulnerability in Colorectal Cancer: Adjusted Gross Income and Geography as Factors in Determining Overall Survival in Colorectal Cancer: A Single-Center …

C Doria, PG De Deyne, P Charalampos - Current Oncology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Regional differences in socioeconomic status (SES) are well known, and we
believe that the use of geocoding (zip code) can facilitate the introduction of targeted …

A Causal Perspective for Batch Effects: When is no answer better than a wrong answer?

EW Bridgeford, M Powell, G Kiar, S Noble, J Chung… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Batch effects, undesirable sources of variance across multiple experiments, present a
substantial hurdle for scientific and clinical discoveries. Specifically, the presence of batch …

[PDF][PDF] Problems with Evidence Assessment in COVID-19 Health Policy Impact Evaluation: A systematic review of study design and evidence strength

J Salomon, C Bolster-Foucault, CM Joyce - 2021 - scienceopen.com
● The review tool assesses critical aspects of study design grounded in impact evaluation
methods that must be true for the papers to provide useful policy impact evaluation …

Challenges in evaluating treatments for COVID-19: The case of in-hospital anticoagulant use and the risk of adverse outcomes

YH Yu, IS Oh, HE Jeong, RW Platt, A Douros… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Anticoagulants are a potential treatment for the thrombotic complications resulting from
COVID-19. We aimed to determine the association between anticoagulant use and adverse …