Retrospective propensity score matching and the selection of surgical procedures: How precise can a propensity estimate be?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 3200-3201

  Honda, Michitaka ^a   Yamamoto, Kazumichi ^b   Furukawa, Toshi A ^c  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Komatsu Hospital   (Japan)

^c Graduate School of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; GASTRECTOMY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT HISTORY OF SURGERY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELECTION BIAS; SEX; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CANCER; SURGEON; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TUMOR BIOPSY; ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PROCEDURES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84907581246     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2014.55.9682     Document Type: Letter

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