0363 Marginal structural models to account for time-varying confounding variable and the health worker survivor effect (for a mini-symposium on ‘dynamics of exposure and disease’, organised by Vermeulen)

• Published in: Occupational and environmental medicine (London, England) Vol. 71; no. Suppl 1; p. A121
• Main Author: Steenland, Kyle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Exposure; Longitudinal studies; Structural models

Objectives Marginal structural models (MSMs) in longitudinal studies are needed when time-varying confounders are themselves predicted by previous exposure, and are intermediate variables on the pathway between exposure and disease. The epidemiologist is left with the unenviable choice of adjusting...