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