Methodological contextualization and interpretation of early gastrostomy timing in nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage

We thank the author for the constructive comments regarding our study examining early gastrostomy timing in patients with nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)1. We appreciate the opportunity to clarify the scope, methodological choices, and interpretation of our findings, and we agree that careful consideration of causal inference is crucial when using administrative datasets.