Letter to the editor: influenza-associated mortality and oseltamivir: beware of misstepping into stepwise procedures

Euro Surveill. 2019 Nov;24(46):1900678. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.46.1900678.

Authors

Theodore Lytras¹, Stefanos Bonovas^{2

3}, Georgios K Nikolopoulos⁴, Sotirios Tsiodras^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ National Public Health Organization, Athens, Greece.
² Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
³ Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁵ 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.

PMID: 31771710
PMCID: PMC6864980
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.46.1900678

No abstract available

Keywords: bias; confounding; influenza; mortality; oseltamivir; stepwise regression.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Hospitals, Teaching
Humans
Influenza, Human*
Oseltamivir*
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors

Substances

Oseltamivir