@article{ref1, title="Was Civil War surgery effective?", journal="Historical methods: a journal of quantitative and interdisciplinary history", year="2018", author="Baker, Matthew J.", volume="51", number="1", pages="49-61", abstract="During the U.S. Civil War surgeons performed a vast number of surgeries. Whether surgery increased wounded soldiers' chances of survival has been debated ever since. I analyze a unique observational data set gathered by Dr. Edmund Andrews, a surgeon with the 1st Illinois Light Artillery. I use Dr. Andrews's data, model selection tools, and doubly robust estimation methods to estimate treatment effects from surgery. I find that surgery increased wounded soldiers' chances of survival by 0.09-0.16, depending on the specific model of surgical procedure.

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", language="en", issn="0161-5440", doi="10.1080/01615440.2017.1408440", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2017.1408440" }