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Causality

Early antibiotics in sepsis — association, Bradford Hill criteria, and causal inference with DAGs.

Page 1: Clinical vignette and opening questions

Read the sepsis timing study headline and answer two questions before the teaching points.

Page 2: Bradford Hill criteria

Review all nine Hill viewpoints plus reversibility, applied to early antibiotics in sepsis.

Page 3: Causal Inference and DAGs

Drag to draw causal arrows — smoking, cancer, and a mediator/collider exercise with inflammation.

Page 4: Return to your answers

Revisit the opening questions with feedback and compare to your initial responses.