Purpose of Review <p>Transportability, one of the twin faces of external validity (alongside generalizability), refers to the ability to use effect estimates in a study population to understand effects in a different population. In this review, we aimed to provide an overview of ongoing methodological developments in the field of transportability and provide a tutorial walking through key steps in the transportability process.</p> Recent Findings <p>We cover recent work done to distinguish the concept of transportability from generalizability (or external validity more broadly), define core conditions necessary for transporting treatment effects to a different target population, outline approaches to identify sufficient adjustment sets, and design estimators to estimate transported treatment effects. We then illustrate the application of these methods through a case study comparing the effects of two adjuvant chemotherapies for breast cancer in patients within the National Cancer Database, a large national cancer registry, using effect estimates transported from a randomized controlled trial.</p> Summary <p>While external validity, generalizability, and transportability have long been recognized as important elements of epidemiology, they have historically been treated interchangeably and discussed qualitatively in discussion sections of manuscripts. Over the past two decades, however, major strides have been made to formally define these concepts and introduce analytic methods for them that are valid under well-defined conditions.</p>

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Transporting: What Is It and How Do You Do It?

  • Michael Webster-Clark,
  • Alexander Breskin,
  • Emilie D. Duchesneau,
  • Kara E. Rudolph

摘要

Purpose of Review

Transportability, one of the twin faces of external validity (alongside generalizability), refers to the ability to use effect estimates in a study population to understand effects in a different population. In this review, we aimed to provide an overview of ongoing methodological developments in the field of transportability and provide a tutorial walking through key steps in the transportability process.

Recent Findings

We cover recent work done to distinguish the concept of transportability from generalizability (or external validity more broadly), define core conditions necessary for transporting treatment effects to a different target population, outline approaches to identify sufficient adjustment sets, and design estimators to estimate transported treatment effects. We then illustrate the application of these methods through a case study comparing the effects of two adjuvant chemotherapies for breast cancer in patients within the National Cancer Database, a large national cancer registry, using effect estimates transported from a randomized controlled trial.

Summary

While external validity, generalizability, and transportability have long been recognized as important elements of epidemiology, they have historically been treated interchangeably and discussed qualitatively in discussion sections of manuscripts. Over the past two decades, however, major strides have been made to formally define these concepts and introduce analytic methods for them that are valid under well-defined conditions.