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Adjusting for geographic variation in observational comparative effectiveness studies: a case study of antipsychotics using state Medicaid data

BACKGROUND: Area-level variation in treatment and outcomes may be a potential source of confounding bias in observational comparative effectiveness studies. This paper demonstrates how to use exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and spatial statistical methods to investigate and control for thes...

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Autores principales: Root, Elisabeth Dowling, Thomas, Deborah SK, Campagna, Elizabeth J, Morrato, Elaine H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4161848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25164423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-355