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You are here: Home / Articles / Tips for Designing Studies That Actually Reveal Causal Inference

Tips for Designing Studies That Actually Reveal Causal Inference

May 13, 2021 • By Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD

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  1. Hernán MA, Robins JM. Causal Inference: What If. 2020 Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC; 2020.
  2. Hernán MA, Robins JM. Using big data to emulate a target trial when a randomized trial is not available. Am J Epidemiol. 2016 Apr 15;183(8):75–764.
  3. Zhao SS, Lyu H, Solomon DH, et al. Improving rheumatoid arthritis comparative effectiveness research through causal inference principles: Systematic review using a target trial emulation framework. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Jul;79(7):883–890.

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About Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD

Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD, was born and raised in eastern Kentucky, where she first cultivated her love of literature, writing and personal narratives. She attended Kenyon college, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, summa cum laude. She worked with individuals with psychiatric conditions and later in a neuroscience lab at the University of Illinois, Chicago, before graduating from Indiana University Medical School in 2011. Instead of pursuing clinical medicine, Ruth opted to build on her strength of clearly explaining medical topics though a career as a freelance medical writer, writing both for lay people and for health professionals. She writes across the biomedical sciences, but holds strong interests in rheumatology, neurology, autoimmune diseases, genetics, and the intersection of broader social, cultural and emotional contexts with biomedical topics. Ruth now lives in Bloomington, Ind., with her husband, son and cat. She can be contacted via her website at ruthjessenhickman.com.

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