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Estimating the causal effect of liability to disease on healthcare costs using Mendelian Randomization.
Economics and human biology - 1 Aug 2022
Dixon Padraig, Harrison Sean, Hollingworth William, Davies Neil M, Davey Smith George
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Accurate measurement of the effects of disease status on healthcare costs is important in the pragmatic evaluation of interventions but is complicated by endogeneity bias. Mendelian Randomization, the use of random perturbations in germline genetic variation as instrumental variables, can avoid these limitations. We used a novel Mendelian Randomization analysis to model the causal impact on inpatient hospital...
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