Physician's prescribing preference as an instrumental variable: Exploring assumptions using survey data

Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 276-283

  Boef, Anna G C ^a   Le Cessie, Saskia ^a   Dekkers, Olaf M ^a,b   Frey, Peter ^c   Kearney, Patricia M ^d   Kerse, Ngaire ^e   Mallen, Christian D ^f   McCarthy, Vera J C ^d   Mooijaart, Simon P ^a,g   Muth, Christiane ^h   Rodondi, Nicolas ⁱ   Rosemann, Thomas ^j   Russell, Audrey ^d   Schers, Henk ^k   Virgini, Vanessa ^i,l   De Waal, Margot W M ^a   Warner, Alex ^m   Gussekloo, Jacobijn ^a   Den Elzenp, Wendy P J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Aarhus Medical Centre   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g Institute for Evidence Based Medicine in Old Age (IEMO)   (Netherlands)

^h GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^m UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; IRELAND; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; SWITZERLAND; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IRELAND; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND; THYROXINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84955097032     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000425     Document Type: Article

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