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SUBMITTER: Vock DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3865173 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vock David M DM Tsiatis Anastasios A AA Davidian Marie M Laber Eric B EB Tsuang Wayne M WM Finlen Copeland C Ashley CA Palmer Scott M SM
Biometrics 20131015 4
Because the number of patients waiting for organ transplants exceeds the number of organs available, a better understanding of how transplantation affects the distribution of residual lifetime is needed to improve organ allocation. However, there has been little work to assess the survival benefit of transplantation from a causal perspective. Previous methods developed to estimate the causal effects of treatment in the presence of time-varying confounders have assumed that treatment assignment w ...[more]