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healthy user effect: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

bias arising because people who choose preventive treatments tend to be healthier in other ways, inflating apparent treatment benefits.

In epidemiology, healthy user effect refers to bias arising because people who choose preventive treatments tend to be healthier in other ways, inflating apparent treatment benefits. This meaning comes from Shrank (2011) in Journal of General Internal Medicine.[1]

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bias6 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs treatment1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Shrank, W. H., Patrick, A. R., & Alan Brookhart, M. (2011). Healthy User and Related Biases in Observational Studies of Preventive Interventions: A Primer for Physicians. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26(5), 546-550. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-010-1609-1

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