Counter-Point: Early Warning Systems Are Imperfect, but Essential

Christine Y Lu; Gregory Simon; Stephen B Soumerai; Martin Kulldorff

doi:10.1097/MLR.0000000000000896

Counter-Point: Early Warning Systems Are Imperfect, but Essential

Med Care. 2018 May;56(5):382-383. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000896.

Authors

Christine Y Lu¹, Gregory Simon², Stephen B Soumerai¹, Martin Kulldorff³

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¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.
² Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Abstract

Sequential analysis can be used as an early warning system about potential unintended consequences of health policy decisions, generating follow-up investigations, but it should not be used as causal evidence.

Counter-Point: Early Warning Systems Are Imperfect, but Essential

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