197. A critical situational public health study investigates the impact of a new policy, but the study design doesn’t account for other simultaneous changes in the environment that could also affect the outcome. What is the urgency for a biostatistician’s caution?
A.
To attribute all changes to the new policy.
B.
To urgently highlight the potential for confounding and the need to consider and, if possible, adjust for other concurrent changes.
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C.
To ignore other factors.
D.
To assume the policy is the only cause.
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To attribute all changes to the new policy.
To urgently highlight the potential for confounding and the need to consider and, if possible, adjust for other concurrent changes.
