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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Intervention Trials

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Medical Informatics Europe 81

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 11))

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A method for the quantitative assessment of intervention effects in the absence of a conventional control group is presented. It is based on the assumption that confounding influences can be estimated from the group below the level where intervention started. The statistical problems which still await solving are discussed.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands

    F. H. Bonjer & A. P. M. van der Lee

  2. Netherlands Institute for Preventive Medicine, Leiden, The Netherlands

    A. H. Jonkers

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  1. F. H. Bonjer
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  2. A. P. M. van der Lee
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  1. Départment de Biophysique et de Biomathématiques, Faculté de Médecine PITIE-SALPETRIERE, 91, boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris 13ème, France

    Francois Grémy  & Patrice Degoulet  & 

  2. North East Thames Regional Health Authority, 40, Eastbourne Terrace, W2 3QR, London, Great Britain

    Barry Barber

  3. Département Informatique, Université BORDEAUX II, 146, rue Léo Saignat, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France

    Roger Salamon

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Bonjer, F.H., van der Lee, A.P.M., Jonkers, A.H. (1981). How to Measure the Effectiveness of Intervention Trials. In: Grémy, F., Degoulet, P., Barber, B., Salamon, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 81. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93169-7_96

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