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Review
. 2006;10(5):164.
doi: 10.1186/cc5019.

Antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes: the hazards of adjustment

Mitchell J Schwaber  1 , Yehuda Carmeli
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Review

Antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes: the hazards of adjustment

Mitchell J Schwaber et al. Crit Care. 2006.

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.

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