PhD Opportunity at Centre for Pain Impact and UNSW Medicine & Health (domestic and international): development/effectiveness/implementation of evidence-based interventions for #backpain !
👉 #Scholarship : $42K pa (+ support for attending conferences). Click here: neura.edu.au/project/phd-sc…

Beautiful summary of serious limitations of observational data for treatment comparisons. #Statistics #RCT

Question:
How are observational studies that explicitly aim to emulate a target trial reported?
Answer:
Not well - reporting could have been more consistent and complete for many studies.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Miguel Hernán

Reminder: If you want to play a part in helping us make the guideline as useful as possible, please register your details here (redcap.link/target-piloting) to be contacted when we are ready to pilot the guideline! #epitwitter #causalinference 8/n

🚨New paper🚨This #systematicreview lead by
@hjhansford
shows that there is room for improvement in the reporting of target trial emulations. Stay up-to-date on progress in this area
TARGET Reporting Guideline 🎯

@pain_neura
#causalinference #epitwitter

🙌Part 2 of developing the TARGET Reporting Guideline🙌
The reporting of studies EXPLICITLY aiming to emulate a target trial: systematic review JAMA Network Open

Spoiler, it's often unclear what was done due to poor reporting of the target trial, let me explain 1/n
doi.org/10.1001/jamane…

As all of you now know, we plan to develop the TARGET Reporting Guideline to help authors aiming to emulate a target trial report the minimum important information to allow their study to be most useful. See doi.org/10.1136/bmjope… for the full outline of our plan 7/n #epitwitter