Assessing balance in measured baseline covariates when using many-to-one matching on the propensity-score

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1218-1225

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance; Goodness of fit; Matching; Observational study; Pharmacoepidemiology; Propensity score; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

STATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59649108931     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1674     Document Type: Article

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