A brief introduction to causal inference in healthcare

Scott Cunningham and Jonathan A. Seward

Year of publication:	2024
Authors:	Cunningham, Scott ; Seward, Jonathan A.
Published in:	The Cambridge handbook of healthcare : productivity, efficiency, effectiveness. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-009-48376-6. - 2024, p. 553-611
Subject:	average treatment effects \| causal effects \| causal inference \| difference-in-differences \| healthcare \| heterogeneous treatment effects bias \| independence and conditional independence \| independence-based designs \| instrumental variables \| judge-leniency \| local average treatment effect \| matching/stratification techniques \| model-based designs \| potential and realized outcomes \| propensity score \| quasi-experimental research designs \| randomized control trials \| regression discontinuity design \| selection bias \| sharp RDD and fuzzy RDD \| synthetic controls \| Kausalanalyse \| Causality analysis \| IV-Schätzung \| Instrumental variables \| Regressionsanalyse \| Regression analysis \| Induktive Statistik \| Statistical inference \| Schätztheorie \| Estimation theory \| Gesundheitsversorgung \| Health care \| Experiment