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Alignment of meeting eligibility criteria, treatment assignment and start of follow-up. (A) the randomized trial (target trial) and (B) the observational study emulating the randomized trial. AS, treatment assignment selected by investigator (on the basis of whether data are consistent with being assigned to that treatment strategy); AR, randomized treatment assignment; E, meeting all eligibility criteria; T0, time zero (=start of follow-up).
