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Marshall M Joffe1, Dylan Small, Thomas Ten Have

  • 1University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA. mjoffe@mail.med.upenn.edu

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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Causal Inference

Background:

  • Instrumental variables (IV) methods are crucial for estimating causal effects in observational studies.
  • Estimating the overall treatment effect is challenging when a primary treatment influences a secondary treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend instrumental variables methods for estimating the overall effect of a primary treatment.
  • To address scenarios where an instrument affects both primary and secondary treatments.

Main Methods:

  • Developing an extended instrumental variables approach.
  • Integrating methods for estimating the primary treatment's effect on a secondary treatment.
  • Considering extensions for confounding, mediation, failure-time outcomes, and time-varying secondary treatments.

Main Results:

  • Instrumental variables methods alone cannot estimate the overall primary treatment effect.
  • The proposed extended IV approach, combined with secondary treatment effect estimation, enables overall primary treatment effect estimation.
  • The method is adaptable to complex scenarios including confounding and time-varying effects.

Conclusions:

  • The extended instrumental variables method provides a viable strategy for estimating overall treatment effects in complex settings.
  • This approach is applicable to real-world health scenarios, such as evaluating vascular access in hemodialysis patients.