{"id":17948,"date":"2019-09-30T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=17948"},"modified":"2020-06-11T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:34:32","slug":"confounder-matrix-online-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2019\/09\/30\/confounder-matrix-online-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Confounder Matrix Online Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PI:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/ludovic-trinquart\/\">Ludovic Trinquart<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, SPH<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Track:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/\">HIC<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/centers-initiatives-labs\/digital-health-initiative-dhi\/\">Digital Health Initiative<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>Systematic reviews (SRs) are appraisals and syntheses of original studies to answer some clinical questions. It is important because they help to inform clinicians and researchers on patient-important issues. However, the validity of the SRs of observational studies is the potential bias due to confounding, and a framework is lacking to address confounding bias. The investigator and the team developed a novel approach to examine confounding in SRs of observational studies and want to develop an online open-access tool for confounder bias analysis in SR of observational studies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI:\u00a0Ludovic Trinquart, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, SPH Track:\u00a0HIC &amp; Digital Health Initiative Systematic reviews (SRs) are appraisals and syntheses of original studies to answer some clinical questions. It is important because they help to inform clinicians and researchers on patient-important issues. However, the validity of the SRs of observational studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11733,11732],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20615,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948\/revisions\/20615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}