Who is the marginal patient? Understanding instrumental variables estimates of treatment effects

Health Services Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5 I, 1998, Pages 1337-1360

  Harris, Katherine M ^a   Remler, Dahlia K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Instrumental variables; Medical outcomes; Nonexperimental research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOM ALLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032436644     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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