Improving participant selection in disease management programmes: Insights gained from propensity score stratification

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 914-918

  Linden, Ariel ^a,b   Adams, John L ^c  

^a LINDEN CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Disease management; Observational study; Propensity score; Stratification

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STRATIFICATION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OREGON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SELECTION; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SELECTION BIAS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 55349099902     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01091.x     Document Type: Article

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