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protopathic bias: a standalone construct

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Pharmacoepidemiology

bias arising when a drug is started because of early symptoms of a disease not yet diagnosed, making the drug look like a cause.

In pharmacoepidemiology, protopathic bias refers to bias arising when a drug is started because of early symptoms of a disease not yet diagnosed, making the drug look like a cause. This meaning comes from Horwitz (1980) in The American Journal of Medicine.[1]

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Horwitz, R. I., & Feinstein, A. R. (1980). The problem of “protopathic bias” in case-control studies. The American Journal of Medicine, 68(2), 255-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(80)90363-0

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