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Understanding Treatment Effect Estimates When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous for More Than One Outcome.

John M BrooksCole G ChapmanMary C Schroeder
Published 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.
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