Hypothetical Treatment Accelerations: Estimating Causal Effects of Kidney Transplants from Observational Data
假想治疗加速:利用观察数据估计肾移植的因果效应
Patients with end-stage kidney disease can expect to wait for several years before they receive a transplant, all the while their health deteriorates. How would the survival change if we managed to reduce these waiting times? To provide an answer, we present a continuous-time marginal structural model (MSM) of hypothetical scenarios in which the time until treatment is changed. In these scenarios, the treatment process is defined on a hypothetical time scale where time…