Designing Premarket Observational Comparative Studies Using Existing Data as Controls: Challenges and Opportunities

Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS)

(2012) William L. Holman   CIRCULATION

Regulatory Considerations in the Design of Comparative Observational Studies Using Propensity Scores

(2012) Lilly Q. Yue   Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Propensity scores: From naïve enthusiasm to intuitive understanding

(2011) Elizabeth Williamson et al.   STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward

(2010) Elizabeth A. Stuart   STATISTICAL SCIENCE

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

(2009) Peter C. Austin   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

For objective causal inference, design trumps analysis

(2008) Donald B. Rubin   Annals of Applied Statistics