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April 21, 2005BMJ647 citationsOpen Access

Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 2. Assessing potential for confounding

MMMuhammad MamdaniKSKathy SykoraPLPing Li

Key Points

  • The aim is to provide guidance on evaluating the potential for confounding in cohort studies.
  • Discusses strategies for identifying confounding variables.
  • Explores methods for minimizing the effects of confounding.
  • Emphasizes the importance of valid comparison in research.
  • Confounding identified as a significant issue in cohort study validity.
  • Strategies presented can help mitigate confounding effects.
  • Improved assessment leads to more reliable study outcomes.

Abstract

Although confounding is an important problem of cohort studies, its effects can be minimised to enable valid comparison

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Mamdani et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d98849ed2e131d3c6841dbhttps://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7497.960
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