Combining high quality data with rigorous methods: emulation of a target trial using electronic health records and a nested case-control design

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ² Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
• ³ Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁵ Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA gdanaei@hsph.harvard.edu.
• ¹⁰ CAUSALab, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.