Collider Bias Rather Than a Healthy Condition Leads to the Unfavorable Outcome of Sepsis

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Center for Intelligent Healthcare, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ² Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
• ³ Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Electronic address: yochiahung@gmail.com.
• ⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.