Why the Propensity for Propensity Scores?∗

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2024-2026

  Day, Andrew G ^a  

^a KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

causal effects; critical care; observational studies; propensity match; propensity score

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK FACTOR; CRITICAL ILLNESS; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84946112096     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001175     Document Type: Editorial

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