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Editorial
. 2021 May;18(5):777-779.
doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202102-126ED.

Accurately Measuring Preventable Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Deaths Using Observational Data: It's about Time

Owen R Albin  1 , Andrew J Admon  2   3   4
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Editorial

Accurately Measuring Preventable Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Deaths Using Observational Data: It's about Time

Owen R Albin et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021 May.
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Figure 1.
Directed acyclic graph featuring time-dependent confounding, time-independent (e.g., baseline) confounding, and exposure–confounder feedback (20). T1 = Time 1; T2 = Time 2; VAP = ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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