Lectures and seminars Plenary talk: How to Make People Immortal and Why It's Not a Good Idea: Improving Causal Analyses of Healthcare Databases

The generation of "immortal time" is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference based on health care databases. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of warnings, immortal time still plagues causal analyses in medicine, which is fascinating because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data. Rather, we generate immortal time when analyzing the data incorrectly. This talk summarizes why immortal time arises in causal survival analyses of healthcare databases and how to prevent it.

About the speaker: Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology, Director CAUSALab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Principal Researcher CAUSALab IMM, Karolinska Institutet

Register by October 13: https://survey.ki.se/Survey/44292

Supported by funding from the Swedish Research Council

 Organizers and Contact: Alessandro Bosi and Anita Berglund, CAUSALab, IMM, KI

A seminar organized by the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) at Karolinska Institutet.