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The Canadian Hypoglycaemia During Hospitalisation (HyDHo) Score is Externally Valid in the Australian DINGO Cohort of Ad...

Published in Canadian journal of diabetes

The Hypoglycaemia During Hospitalization (HyDHo) score predicts hypoglycaemia in a population of Canadian inpatients by assigning various weightings to five key clinical criteria known at the time of admission: age, recent presentation to an emergency department, insulin use, oral hypoglycaemic use, and chronic kidney disease. The aim of the presen...

Selecting and Improving Quasi-Experimental Designs in Effectiveness and Implementation Research

Interventional researchers face many design challenges when assessing intervention implementation in real-world settings. Intervention implementation requires holding fast on internal validity needs while incorporating external validity considerations (such as uptake by diverse subpopulations, acceptability, cost, and sustainability). Quasi-experim...

Family-based pediatric weight management interventions in US primary care settings targeting children ages 6-12 years ol...

Published in Translational behavioral medicine

Pediatric weight management research focused on primary care centers for children ages 6–12 in the USA has typically focused on assessing the effectiveness of the intervention rather than how to translate and disseminate such interventions into different settings for diverse populations, or external validity. Using the Reach, Efficacy/Effectiveness...

Causal inference methods for combining randomized trials and observational studies: a review

With increasing data availability, causal effects can be evaluated across different data sets, both randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies. RCTs isolate the effect of the treatment from that of unwanted (confounding) co-occurring effects but they may suffer from un- representativeness, and thus lack external validity. On the ...

Conditional cross-design synthesis estimators for generalizability in Medicaid.

Published in Biometrics

While much of the causal inference literature has focused on addressing internal validity biases, both internal and external validity are necessary for unbiased estimates in a target population of interest. However, few generalizability approaches exist for estimating causal quantities in a target population that is not well-represented by a random...

A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity.

Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

Researchers have been concerned with internal and external validity for decades, and the discussion continues. The present proposal is that there are less important and more important senses in which one can interpret internal and external validity, and these can be integrated with a taxonomy that includes theoretical, auxiliary, statistical, and i...

Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning

This article reviews recent advances in causal inference relevant to sociology. We focus on a selective subset of contributions aligning with four broad topics: causal effect identification and estimation in general, causal effect heterogeneity, causal effect mediation, and temporal and spatial interference. We describe how machine learning, as an ...