Exploring comparative effect heterogeneity with instrumental variables: prehospital intubation and mortality
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We are grateful to Ellen MacKenzie, Gregory Jurkovich, and Frederick Rivara for providing access to the NSCOT data and to Jin Wang for her assistance in data preparation and analysis. We also thank Jim Heckman and Philipp Eisenhauer for suggestions about computations. All errors are ours. Dr. Basu acknowledges financial support from National Cancer Institute research grants RC4 CA155809 (PI Basu) and R01 CA155329 (PI Basu). Dr. Evans acknowledges financial support from an Agency for Health Care Quality and Research career development award K12 HS019482-01 (PI Sullivan).
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