Immortal Time Bias in Assessing Evidence-Based Care Processes for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Feb 1;178(2):295-296. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.7947.

Authors

Steven Y C Tong¹, Allen C Cheng², Justin T Denholm¹

Affiliations

¹ Victorian Infectious Disease Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 29404611
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.7947

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MeSH terms

Bacteremia
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Staphylococcal Infections*
Staphylococcus aureus*
Veterans Health