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dash2 on July 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The human impact of having too few nurses

At least give me a diff-in-diff, guys.

To be fair, they acknowledge their limitations and the fact that they can't make a causal interpretation. (Bad hospitals -> nurses leave?) But why the hell design the study this way?

mft_ on July 8, 2019 [–]

How would you design it otherwise? An interventional study would presumably be ideal, but probably impossible to achieve.

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