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N Sourial, C Longo, I Vedel, T Schuster - Family Practice, 2018 - academic.oup.com

Daring to draw causal claims from non-randomized studies of primary care interventions.

Stem education interventions

Longo, Schuster, Sourial, Vedel

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Primary care interventions, including new primary care policies or quality improvement programs, are often evaluated without the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), as randomizing who receives the intervention can be infeasible for many practical, ethical and political reasons (1). In these cases, evidence on the effect of the intervention must stem from non-randomized studies (eg quasiexperimental studies, natural experiments or observational studies) which presents many complexities to isolating the causal effect from …

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