CMAJ

Adjustment for continuous confounders: an example of how to prevent residual confounding

Control for confounding is crucial in causal observational studies. However, the modelling of continuous confounders has not received much attention. This is probably because in causal research the ...
Nature

Association of symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with childhood overweight adjusted for confounding parental variables

There have been numerous reports on association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and overweight/obesity in children and adolescents; however ...
ascopubs.org

Adjustments for confounding variables in observational population-based studies in oncology and comparison to results from randomized controlled trials.

Collection and utilization of oncology big data. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.
CMAJ

Testing group differences for confounder selection in nonrandomized studies: flawed practice

Using observed imbalances between study groups (e.g., exposed and unexposed) to determine variables for confounding adjustment in nonrandomized studies may misguide the selection of variables to ...