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Effects of aggregation of drug and diagnostic codes on the performance of the high-dimensional propensity score algorithm: an empirical example

BACKGROUND: The High-Dimensional Propensity Score (hd-PS) algorithm can select and adjust for baseline confounders of treatment-outcome associations in pharmacoepidemiologic studies that use healthcare claims data. How hd-PS performance is affected by aggregating medications or medical diagnoses has...

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Autores principales: Le, Hoa V, Poole, Charles, Brookhart, M Alan, Schoenbach, Victor J, Beach, Kathleen J, Layton, J Bradley, Stürmer, Til
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24245772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-13-142