Propensity score methods for creating covariate balance in observational studies;Métodos de puntuación de propensión para crear una distribución equilibrada de las covariables en los estudios observacionales

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 897-903

  Pattanayak, Cassandra W ^a   Rubin, Donald B ^a   Zell, Elizabeth R ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariate balance; Observational studies; Propensity scores

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; APROTININ; CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052969354     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: 15792242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.recesp.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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