Propensity scores: Methods, considerations, and applications in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-19

  McMurry, Timothy L ^a   Hu, Yinin ^b   Blackstone, Eugene H ^c   Kozower, Benjamin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; Key Words propensity score; matching; observational studies; statistical methods

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DOCUMENTATION; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LITERATURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC);

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROPENSITY SCORE; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 84941062637     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.03.057     Document Type: Article

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