Comparing treatments using observational study designs: What can we do about selection bias?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 927-

  Dimick, Justin B ^a   Livingston, Edward H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PLASMA; PROCEDURES; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OBSERVATION; PLASMA; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77958580846     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.223     Document Type: Note

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