Meta-analysis of rate ratios with differential follow-up by treatment arm: Inferring comparative effectiveness of medical devices

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 2913-2925

  Kunz, Lauren M ^a,b   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^b,c   Sedrakyan, Art ^d  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregated data; Bayesian; Comparative effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL DEVICE; META ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; ODDS RATIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938288912     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6530     Document Type: Article

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