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Target Trial Emulation for Causal Inference From Observational Data With Dr Hernán

JAMAevidence JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods

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Randomized Clinical Trials and Observational Studies

The chapter delves into the importance of randomized clinical trials in evaluating medical treatments, emphasizing their role in ensuring unbiased results and reliable causal inference. It discusses the challenges of using observational data instead of randomized trials, highlighting the differences in follow-up initiation and the reliance on target trial emulation as a method for causal inference.

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