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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

In our scoping review published in IJE , we developed 12 criteria based on previous literature on overadjustment bias and used these to look at potential approaches to managing overadjustment bias in 84 systematic reviews of health inequalities. Overall, these approaches were not regularly applied.

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Dr. Rex Archer Honored with PHAB’s Prestigious F. Douglas Scutchfield Leadership Award 

PHAB

Dr. Archer is a distinguished national leader in public health who has made significant contributions to public health policy and practice, including serving the residents of the city of Kansas City, Missouri as the Director of Health for 23 years. About Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield F.