A theoretical exploration of therapeutic monomania as a physician-based instrumental variable.

Brian J PotterColin DormuthJacques Le Lorier

Published in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2019)

Prescriber preference, be it of individual physicians or groups of physicians, may, under the right conditions, be powerful instrumental variables. Empiric experimental data are required to determine the appropriateness of combining propensity matching and instrumental variable analysis.

Keyphrases

primary care
emergency department
electronic health record
big data
machine learning
data analysis