Comment on Williamson et al. (OpenSAFELY): The Table 2 Fallacy in a Study of COVID-19 Mortality Risk Factors
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Westreich, D.
- Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
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Edwards, J.K.
- Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
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Van Smeden, M.
- Other Affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht
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Westreich, D.
- Abstract
- To the Editor: We write with respect to the recently published work by Williamson et al. “OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients.” We have serious concerns about both the way these results are presented, and how they are likely to be interpreted. Our specific concerns revolve around whether the work is intended by the authors to estimate causal effects, or not—and how, regardless of their intent, it seems likely to us that their work will be interpreted as causal.
- Date of publication
- 2020
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- DOI
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- Resource type
- Article
- Journal title
- Epidemiology
- Journal volume
- 32
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- E1
- Page end
- E2
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1044-3983
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
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