Longitudinal structural mixed models for the analysis of surgical trials with noncompliance

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1738-1760

  Sitlani, Colleen M ^a,b   Heagerty, Patrick J ^a   Blood, Emily A ^c   Tosteson, Tor D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Endogeneity; Longitudinal data; Noncompliance; Structural nested models

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LONGITUDINAL STRUCTURAL MIXED MODEL; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SELECTION; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84862849643     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4510     Document Type: Article

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