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Causal diagram. Adapted with permission from Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.: Lipsitch M, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Cohen T. Negative controls: a tool for detecting confounding and bias in observational studies. Epidemiology 2010;21:38388. https://journals.lww.com/epidem.
