Propensity score methods and their application in nephrology research

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 256-262

  Barnieh, Lianne ^a   James, Matthew T ^a   Zhang, Jianguo ^a   Hemmelgarn, Brenda R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Methods; Observational studies; Propensity score; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEPHROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPENSITY SCORE METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEPHROLOGY; PROPENSITY SCORE; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955941865     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: 17246059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5301/JN.2011.6429     Document Type: Article

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