Propensity score methodology for confounding control in health care utilization databases

<p>Propensity score (PS) methodology is a common approach to control for confounding in nonexperimental studies of treatment effects using health care utilization databases. This methodology offers researchers many advantages compared with conventional multivariate models: it directly focuses...

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Main Authors: Elisabetta Patorno, Alessandra Grotta, Rino Bellocco, Sebastian Schneeweiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2013-06-01
Series:Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
Online Access:http://ebph.it/article/view/8940
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