Benchmarking Observational Methods by Comparing Randomized Trials and Their Emulations
Issa J Dahabreh, James M. Robins, Miguel A. Hernán
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From the aCenter for Evidence Synthesis in Health and Departments of Health Services, Policy & Practice and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI bDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA cDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA dHarvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA. Editors' Note: A related article appears on p. 605. This work was supported in part by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) award ME-1502-27794 (I.J.D.); Office of Naval Research award N00014-19-1-2446 and National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards R01 AG057869 and R01AII27271 (J.M.R.); and NIH award R37 AI102634 (M.A.H.). The authors report no conflicts of interest. Correspondence: Issa J. Dahabreh, Box G-S121-8, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. E-mail: [email protected].