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confounding by frailty: a standalone construct

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Pharmacoepidemiology

bias in which frail, near-death older people are less likely to receive preventive drugs, making those drugs appear to lower mortality.

In pharmacoepidemiology, confounding by frailty refers to bias in which frail, near-death older people are less likely to receive preventive drugs, making those drugs appear to lower mortality. This meaning comes from Glynn (2001) in Epidemiology.[1]

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bias6 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs frailty2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs mortality4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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Glynn, R. J., Knight, E. L., Levin, R., & Avorn, J. (2001). Paradoxical Relations of Drug Treatment with Mortality in Older Persons. Epidemiology, 12(6), 682-689. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001648-200111000-00017

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