Understanding Treatment Effect Estimates When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous for More Than One Outcome.
John M BrooksCole G ChapmanMary C SchroederPublished in: Applied health economics and health policy (2019)
If estimator assumptions are valid, estimates across outcomes can be used to assess the optimality of treatment rates in a study population. However, because true treatment effect parameters are sensitive to correlations of treatment effects across outcomes, decision makers should be cautious about generalizing estimates to other populations.