Joint modeling of longitudinal outcomes and survival using latent growth modeling approach in a mesothelioma trial [0.03%]
利用潜在增长模型方法联合评价恶性胸膜间皮瘤临床试验中的纵向指标和生存资料
Ping Wang,Wei Shen,Mark Ernest Boye
Ping Wang
Joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data can provide more efficient and less biased estimates of treatment effects through accounting for the associations between these two data types. Sponsors of oncology clinical trials routinely ...
Introduction to the special issue: Recap of ninth International Conference on Health Policy Statistics [0.03%]
第九届健康政策统计国际会议综述特邀专题介绍
Thomas E Love,A James O&#x;Malley
Thomas E Love
A graphical method for assessing risk factor threshold values using the generalized additive model: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis [0.03%]
一种使用广义可加模型评估危险因素阈值的方法：动脉粥样硬化的多族裔研究
Claude Messan Setodji,Maren Scheuner,James S Pankow et al.
Claude Messan Setodji et al.
Continuous variable dichotomization is a popular technique used in the estimation of the effect of risk factors on health outcomes in multivariate regression settings. Researchers follow this practice in order to simplify data analysis, whi...
ESTIMATING TREATMENT EFFECTS ON HEALTHCARE COSTS UNDER EXOGENEITY: IS THERE A 'MAGIC BULLET'? [0.03%]
估计在外生性下的医疗成本的治疗效果：还有“灵丹妙药”吗？
Anirban Basu,Daniel Polsky,Willard G Manning
Anirban Basu
Methods for estimating average treatment effects, under the assumption of no unmeasured confounders, include regression models; propensity score adjustments using stratification, weighting, or matching; and doubly robust estimators (a combi...
GENES AS INSTRUMENTS FOR STUDYING RISK BEHAVIOR EFFECTS: AN APPLICATION TO MATERNAL SMOKING AND OROFACIAL CLEFTS [0.03%]
基因在研究风险行为效应方面的应用：以母亲吸烟和婴儿唇腭裂为例
George Wehby,Astanand Jugessur,Jeffrey C Murray et al.
George Wehby et al.
This study uses instrumental variable (IV) models with genetic instruments to assess the effects of maternal smoking on the child's risk of orofacial clefts (OFC), a common birth defect. The study uses genotypic variants in neurotransmitter...
Bruce E Landon,James D Reschovsky,Hoangmai H Pham et al.
Bruce E Landon et al.
In order to create an empirically derived parsimonious typology of physician financial incentives that will be useful for future research, we used data from the nationally representative 2004-2005 Community Tracking Study Physician Survey (...
Adjusting for Health Status in Non-Linear Models of Health Care Disparities [0.03%]
非线性模型中校正健康状况以衡量医疗卫生差距
Benjamin L Cook,Thomas G McGuire,Ellen Meara et al.
Benjamin L Cook et al.
This article compared conceptual and empirical strengths of alternative methods for estimating racial disparities using non-linear models of health care access. Three methods were presented (propensity score, rank and replace, and a combine...
A James O&#x;Malley,Peter V Marsden
A James O&#x;Malley
Many questions about the social organization of medicine and health services involve interdependencies among social actors that may be depicted by networks of relationships. Social network studies have been pursued for some time in social s...
Methods for Estimating and Interpreting Provider-Specific Standardized Mortality Ratios [0.03%]
估计和解释特定供应商的标准化死亡率比的方法
Jiannong Liu,Thomas A Louis,Wei Pan et al.
Jiannong Liu et al.
Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) are widely used as a measurement of quality of care for profiling and otherwise comparing medical care providers. Invalid estimation or inappropriate interpretation may have serious local and national co...
Kevin G Lynch,Mark Cary,Robert Gallop et al.
Kevin G Lynch et al.
In the context of randomized intervention trials, we describe causal methods for analyzing how post-randomization factors constitute the process through which randomized baseline interventions act on outcomes. Traditionally, such mediation ...