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Randomization Is the Ultimate Instrument
The treatment assignment has nothing to do with the patients risk for an outcome. And so there couldn't have been some way that the patients clinical circumstance influenced their treatment group. The m r n number is almost like an instrument, because it influences greatly whether youe going to get a c t p scan and subsequently anticoagulated. But that's really not much difference between your risk of an outcome if you're d dimers 409, versus whether it's 501.
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