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Scientific Reports, 2021 Low Birth Weight (LBW) is considered as a major public health issue and leading cause of neonatal death. Almost one in four newborns are reported as underweight in Pakistan.
F. Abbas +3 more
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Using matching methods to account for selection bias in Norway’s Primary Care Teams (PCT) pilot
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2021 Norway is piloting team-based primary care delivery models: Honorarmodellen (HM) and Driftstilskuddsmodellen (DM). In addition to organisational changes, the DM transforms provider payment, which seems to attract specific practices.
Øyvind Snilsberg
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI) is widely used for nutritional assessment in older inpatients and is associated with postoperative complications and cancer prognosis.
H. Kanno +7 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 ObjectiveTo investigate the factors affecting the timing and prognosis of early tracheostomy in multiple rib fracture patients.MethodsA retrospective case-control study was used to analyze the clinical data of 222 patients with multiple rib fractures who
Bing Zhang +8 more
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Matching using semiparametric propensity scores [PDF]
Empirical Economics, 2012 This paper considers the application of semiparametric methods to estimate propensity scores or probabilities of program participation, which are central to certain program evaluation methods. To evaluate the practical benefits, we first conduct a Monte Carlo study. Second, we use data from the NSW experiment, CPS, and PSID. We compare treatment effect
Steven Lehrer, Gregory Kordas
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Gut, 2020 Objective The adverse effects of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have been documented for pneumonia; however, there is no consensus regarding whether the use of PPIs might be harmful regarding the risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...
Seung Won Lee +11 more
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Propensity Scores: A Practical Introduction Using R
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2015 Background: This paper provides an introduction to propensity scores for evaluation practitioners. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with a conceptual and practical introduction to propensity scores, matching using propensity ...
Antonio Olmos, Priyalatha Govindasamy
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Trauma risk score matching for observational studies in orthopedic trauma dataset and code
Data in Brief, 2022 The dataset presented was collected via retrospective review from an orthopedic trauma database approved by the institutional review board at the author's institution from patients treated at any of the four hospitals serviced by the academic orthopedic ...
Rown Parola +3 more
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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
Social Science Research Network, 2005 Propensity Score Matching (PSM) has become a popular approach to estimate causal treatment effects. It is widely applied when evaluating labour market policies, but empirical examples can be found in very diverse fields of study.
Marco Caliendo, Sabine Kopeinig
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Understanding the effect of loneliness on unemployment: propensity score matching
BMC Public Health, 2022 Loneliness and unemployment are each detrimental to health and well-being. Recent evidence suggests a potential bidirectional relationship between loneliness and unemployment in working age individuals.
N. Morrish +2 more
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