Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies

Comparing Medical and Dental Providers of Oral Health Services on Early Dental Caries Experience

(2014) Ashley M. Kranz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

The Role of Surgical Resection Following Imatinib Treatment in Patients with Recurrent or Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: Results of Propensity Score Analyses

(2014) Seong Joon Park et al.   ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Is primary tumor resection associated with a longer survival in colon cancer and unresectable synchronous metastases? A 4-year multicentre experience

(2014) L. de Mestier et al.   EJSO

Extracorporeal life support for cardiogenic shock: influence of concomitant intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation

(2014) S. K. Ro et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY

The efficacy of non-carbapenem antibiotics for the treatment of community-onset acute pyelonephritis due to extended-spectrum  -lactamase-producing Escherichia coli

(2014) S. H. Park et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Adverse Cardiac Events in Older Patients Receiving Venlafaxine

(2014) Joanne M. Ho et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY

Surgical repair of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm involving the distal arch: Open proximal anastomosis under deep hypothermia versus arch clamping technique

(2014) Jae Suk Yoo et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Dipyridamole treatment is associated with improved renal outcome and patient survival in advanced chronic kidney disease

(2014) Chi-Chih Hung et al.   KAOHSIUNG JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

The effect of free health care on polypharmacy: a comparison of propensity score methods and multivariable regression to account for confounding

(2014) Kathryn Richardson et al.   PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY

Directly-Observed Intermittent Therapy versus Unsupervised Daily Regimen during the Intensive Phase of Antituberculosis Therapy in HIV Infected Patients

(2014) Gerardo Alvarez-Uria et al.   Biomed Research International

Comparative effectiveness of the hepatitis C virus protease inhibitors boceprevir and telaprevir in a large U.S. cohort

(2013) L. I. Backus et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Comparative outcomes of rituximab-based systemic therapy and splenectomy in splenic marginal zone lymphoma

(2013) Adam J. Olszewski et al.   ANNALS OF HEMATOLOGY

Association Between Statin Medications and Mortality, Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event, and Amputation-Free Survival in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia

(2013) Gregory G. Westin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Echocardiographic assessment of mitral durability in the late period following mitral valve repair: Minithoracotomy versus conventional sternotomy

(2013) Jae Suk Yoo et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Oral Anticoagulation Therapy Initiation

(2013) Christopher A. Beadles et al.   MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW

Effects of Adjusting for Instrumental Variables on Bias and Precision of Effect Estimates

(2011) Jessica A. Myers et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies

(2011) Peter C. Austin   MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

Weight Trimming and Propensity Score Weighting

(2011) Brian K. Lee et al.   PLoS One

Using the Standardized Difference to Compare the Prevalence of a Binary Variable Between Two Groups in Observational Research

(2009) Peter C. Austin   COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-SIMULATION AND COMPUTATION

Effectiveness of Public Report Cards for Improving the Quality of Cardiac Care

(2009) Jack V. Tu et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity-score matched samples

(2009) Peter C. Austin   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Constructing Inverse Probability Weights for Marginal Structural Models

(2008) S. R. Cole et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference

(2008) Kosuke Imai et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY

Goodness-of-fit diagnostics for the propensity score model when estimating treatment effects using covariate adjustment with the propensity score

(2008) Peter C. Austin   PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY

A critical appraisal of propensity-score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003

(2007) Peter C. Austin   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE