Eurosurv. - Letter to the editor: influenza-associated mortality and oseltamivir: beware of misstepping into stepwise procedures

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Euro Surveill. 2019 Nov;24(46). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.46.1900678. [h=1]Letter to the editor: influenza-associated mortality and oseltamivir: beware of misstepping into stepwise procedures.[/h]
Lytras T[SUP]1[/SUP], Bonovas S[SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]3[/SUP], Nikolopoulos GK[SUP]4[/SUP], Tsiodras S[SUP]5,[/SUP][SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 National Public Health Organization, Athens, Greece. 2 Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy. 3 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy. 4 Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. 5 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.

[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] bias; confounding; influenza; mortality; oseltamivir; stepwise regression

PMID: 31771710 DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.46.1900678

 

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Euro Surveill. 2019 Nov;24(46). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.46.1900692. [h=1]Author's response: influenza-associated mortality oseltamivir: beware of misstepping into stepwise procedures.[/h]
Reacher M[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Verlander NQ[SUP]3[/SUP], Zambon M[SUP]4[/SUP], On Behalf Of The Authors Of The Original Article[SUP]5[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 Public Health England and Cambridge Universities Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2 Public Health England Field Service, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 3 Statistics Unit, Statistics, Modelling and Economics Department, National Infection Service - Data and Analytical Sciences, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom. 4 National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom. 5 The authors are acknowledged at the end of the article.

PMID: 31771704 DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.46.1900692