John M. Brooks

Overview

John M. Brooks is a health economist at the University of South Carolina and the Center for Effectiveness Research in Orthopaedics. His research focuses on treatment effect heterogeneity in observational healthcare data, with particular attention to how treatment choice and multiple outcomes interact to shape the interpretation of regression and IV estimates.

Key Contributions / Features

• Brooks and Chrischilles (2007): heterogeneity and interpretation of treatment effect estimates from risk-adjustment and IV methods (Medical Care)
• Brooks and Fang (2009): interpreting treatment effect estimates with heterogeneity and choice — simulation results (Clinical Therapeutics)
• Brooks, Chapman, and Schroeder (2018): extended essential heterogeneity to multi-outcome setting; coined "sorting on the mix"; demonstrated treatment-risk paradox as rational sorting on benefit/detriment tradeoff (Applied Health Economics and Health Policy)

Related

• Cole G. Chapman
• Mary C. Schroeder
• Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
• Local Average Treatment Effect
• Marginal Treatment Effect
• Brooks Chapman and Schroeder 2018 — Understanding Treatment Effect Estimates When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous for More Than One Outcome

Sources

• Brooks Chapman and Schroeder 2018 — Understanding Treatment Effect Estimates When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous for More Than One Outcome