Can synthetic controls improve causal inference in interrupted time series evaluations of public health interventions?

Interrupted time series designs are a valuable quasi-experimental approach for evaluating public health interventions. Interrupted time series extends a single group pre-post comparison by using multiple time points to control for underlying trends. But history bias—confounding by unexpected events...

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Main Authors: Degli Esposti, M, Spreckelsen, T, Gasparrini, A, Wiebe, DJ, Bonander, C, Yakubovich, AR, Humphreys, DK
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2020