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Propensity score methodology for confounding control in health care utilization databases
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022 Propensity score (PS) methodology is a common approach to control for confounding in nonexperimental studies of treatment effects using health care utilization databases.
Elisabetta Patorno +3 more
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017 Background Propensity scores are typically applied in retrospective cohort studies. We describe the feasibility of matching on a propensity score derived from a retrospective cohort and subsequently applied in a prospective cohort study of patients with ...
Eric S. Johnson +6 more
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Entropy balancing is doubly robust
, 2016 Covariate balance is a conventional key diagnostic for methods used estimating causal effects from observational studies. Recently, there is an emerging interest in directly incorporating covariate balance in the estimation.
Percival, Daniel, Zhao, Qingyuan
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The Role of Peer Influence in Churn in Wireless Networks
, 2014 Subscriber churn remains a top challenge for wireless carriers. These carriers need to understand the determinants of churn to confidently apply effective retention strategies to ensure their profitability and growth. In this paper, we look at the effect
Ferreira, Pedro, Han, Qiwei
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Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022 Background: Missing values are a common problem for data analyses in observational studies, which are frequently applied in health services research.
Benjamin Mayer, Bernd Puschner
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019 Background Smoker's paradox has been observed with several vascular disorders, yet there are limited data in patients with acute heart failure (HF). We examined the effects of smoking in patients with acute HF using data from a large multicenter registry.
Suhail A. Doi +19 more
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Outlier classification performance of risk adjustment methods when profiling multiple providers
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2018 Background When profiling multiple health care providers, adjustment for case-mix is essential to accurately classify the quality of providers. Unfortunately, misclassification of provider performance is not uncommon and can have grave implications ...
Timo B. Brakenhoff +3 more
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Association of inferior vena cava filter placement for venous thromboembolic disease and a contraindication to anticoagulation with 30-day mortality [PDF]
, 2018 Importance: Despite the absence of data from randomized clinical trials, professional societies recommend inferior vena cava (IVC) filters for patients with venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) and a contraindication to anticoagulation therapy.
Brown, David L +3 more
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, 2018 We often seek to estimate the impact of an exposure naturally occurring or randomly assigned at the cluster-level. For example, the literature on neighborhood determinants of health continues to grow.
Balzer, Laura B. +3 more
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JGH Open, 2020 Background and Aims Papillary treatment, such as endoscopic sphincterotomy or endoscopic papillary balloon dilation, and subsequent single‐stage endoscopic stone removal are often performed for choledocholithiasis; however, the incidence of ...
Hirokazu Saito +9 more
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