02.Causation.Pre requisites for causal analysis
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- Longitudinal, observational data, such as electronic health records, cohort studies, registries, secondary analysis of a randomized trial, or unbalanced randomized trials.
- Intervention or risk factor.
- Outcome variables.
- Potential confounding variables.
- Causal mechanisms are sound from a biological, psychological, and social perspective, backed by evidence from the literature and expert opinion. In other words, there is a belief that the main intervention causes the outcome variable, i.e., that the introduction of the intervention will independently lead to changes in the outcome over time.