Hill’s Considerations Are Not Causal Criteria

Hill’s list of considerations for assessing causality, proposed 60 years ago, became a landmark in the interpretation of epidemiologic evidence. However, it has been and continues to be misused as a list of causal criteria to be scored and summed, despite causal inference being unattainable through...

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Published in:	Journal of clinical epidemiology p. 112087
Main Authors:	Savitz, David A., Pearce, Neil, Rothman, Kenneth J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Elsevier Inc 22.11.2025
Subjects:	causal inference epidemiologic methods causal inference epidemiologic methods
ISSN:	0895-4356, 1878-5921, 1878-5921
Online Access:	Get full text
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