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Applying IPTW in a federated setting, however, is non-trivial. We found that even with a well-estimated conditional probability, the local model training step using each hospital\u2019s data alone would still suffer from confounding bias. To address this, we propose F\n                    <jats:sc>ED<\/jats:sc>\n                    -IPTW, a novel algorithm to extend IPTW into a federated setting that enforces both global (over all the data) and local (within each hospital) decorrelation between covariates and treatments. We validated our approach on the task of comparing the treatment effects of mechanical ventilation on improving survival probability for patients with breadth difficulties in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). 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