Reweighted Mahalanobis distance matching for cluster-randomized trials with missing data

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 148-154

  Greevy, Robert A ^a,b   Grijalva, Carlos G ^b   Roumie, Christianne L ^a,b   Beck, Cole ^a,b   Hung, Adriana M ^a,b   Murff, Harvey J ^a,b   Liu, Xulei ^a,b   Griffin, Marie R ^a,b  

^a VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METFORMIN;

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REWEIGHTED MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE MATCHING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; METFORMIN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84860558480     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3260     Document Type: Article

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