Assessing response bias from missing quality of life data: The Heckman method

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sales, Anne E ^a   Plomondon, Mary E ^b   Magid, David J ^c   Spertus, John A ^d   Rumsfeld, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Health related quality of life; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SHORT FORM 36; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VETERAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; COHORT STUDIES; COMPLICATIONS; CORONARY DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SELECTION BIAS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

IM; MLCS; MLOWN; NLM;

EID: 16344396414     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-49     Document Type: Article

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