The Medical Deconfounder: Assessing Treatment Effects with Electronic Health Records
Linying Zhang,
Yixin Wang,
Anna Ostropolets
et al.
Abstract:The treatment effects of medications play a key role in guiding medical prescriptions. They are usually assessed with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which are expensive. Recently, large-scale electronic health records (EHRs) have become available, opening up new opportunities for more costeffective assessments. However, assessing a treatment effect from EHRs is challenging: it is biased by unobserved confounders, unmeasured variables that affect both patients' medical prescription and their outcome, e.g.… Show more
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