Confounder Matrix Online Tool

FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES

PI: Ludovic Trinquart, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, SPH
Track: HIC & Digital Health Initiative

Systematic reviews (SRs) are appraisals and syntheses of original studies to answer some clinical questions. It is important because they help to inform clinicians and researchers on patient-important issues. However, the validity of the SRs of observational studies is the potential bias due to confounding, and a framework is lacking to address confounding bias. The investigator and the team developed a novel approach to examine confounding in SRs of observational studies and want to develop an online open-access tool for confounder bias analysis in SR of observational studies.