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  • Biomedical statistics
  • Causal inference
  • Health services research

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  • Observational studies often analyze recurrent event rates to compare treatments.
  • Estimating treatment effects is challenging due to timing misalignment between eligibility and treatment initiation.
  • Terminal events like death and censoring complicate the analysis of recurrent events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a robust statistical method for estimating causal effects of treatments on recurrent event rates.
  • To address challenges of timing misalignment and censoring in observational data.
  • To accurately compare hospitalization rates between different opioid treatments.

Main Methods:

  • Framing timing misalignment as a time-varying treatment problem.
  • Defining and identifying an average causal effect estimand under right-censoring.
  • Employing g-computation with a joint semiparametric Bayesian model for death and recurrent event processes.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method effectively handles timing misalignment and censoring in observational studies.
  • Accurate estimation of recurrent event rates under different treatment scenarios is achieved.
  • The approach was successfully applied to analyze hospitalization rates in Medicare claims data for opioid treatments.

Conclusions:

  • The novel g-computation approach provides a reliable method for causal inference in recurrent event data with timing complexities.
  • This method enhances the accuracy of treatment effect estimation in biomedical statistics.
  • The findings have implications for analyzing real-world health data and informing treatment guidelines.