Quantifying the impact of survivor treatment bias in observational studies.

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice

• Publication date

  2006-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1365-2753.2005.00624.XPMID 17100859
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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