Nationwide analysis of persistent type II endoleak and late outcomes of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in Japan: a propensity-matched analysis

Y Seike, H Matsuda, H Shimizu, S Ishimaru… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: We reviewed the results of endovascular aneurysm repair in patients from the
Japanese Committee for Stentgraft Management registry to determine the significance of …

A review of causal inference for external comparator arm studies

G Rippin, N Ballarini, H Sanz, J Largent, C Quinten… - Drug Safety, 2022 - Springer
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard design to establish the efficacy of
new drugs and to support regulatory decision making. However, a marked increase in the …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of compliance with the early management bundle (SEP-1) on mortality changes among medicare beneficiaries with sepsis: a propensity score matched …

SR Townsend, GS Phillips, R Duseja, L Tefera… - Chest, 2022 - Elsevier
Background US hospitals have reported compliance with the SEP-1 quality measure to
Medicare since 2015. Finding an association between compliance and outcomes is …

Use of propensity scoring and its application to real‐world data: advantages, disadvantages, and methodological objectives explained to researchers without using …

Y Franchetti - The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐time data collection of patient health status and medications is sped up with modern
electronic devices and technologies. As real‐world data provide enormous research …

Comparison of various heat waves definitions and the burden of heat-related mortality in France: Implications for existing early warning systems

FS Kanti, A Alari, B Chaix, T Benmarhnia - Environmental research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction In France, a heat warning system (HWS) has been implemented almost
two decades ago and rely on some official heat wave (HW) definitions. However, no study …

Venture capital investment, intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: evidence from China

D Guo, K Jiang - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We examine the heterogeneous effects of venture capital (VC) investment on firm
innovation. Using a panel dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms, we find that VC-backed …

Aggressive use of prophylactic cerebrospinal fluid drainage to prevent spinal cord ischemia during thoracic endovascular aortic repair is not supportive

Y Seike, T Fukuda, K Yokawa, S Koizumi… - European Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
OBJECTIVES We investigated whether prophylactic preoperative cerebrospinal fluid
drainage (CSFD) was effective in preventing spinal cord ischemia (SCI) during thoracic …

Medical cannabis and utilization of nonhospice palliative care services: Complements and alternatives at end of life

JA Croker, J Bobitt, K Arora, B Kaskie - Innovation in aging, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives There is a need to know more about cannabis use
among terminally diagnosed older adults, specifically whether it operates as a complement …

Assessment of glucose lowering medications' effectiveness for cardiovascular clinical risk management of real-world patients with type 2 diabetes: targeted maximum …

V Sciannameo, GP Fadini, D Bottigliengo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The results from many cardiovascular (CV) outcome trials suggest that glucose lowering
medications (GLMs) are effective for the CV clinical risk management of type 2 diabetes …

Assessing the effectiveness of empirical calibration under different bias scenarios

H Hwang, JC Quiroz, B Gallego - BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022 - Springer
Background Estimations of causal effects from observational data are subject to various
sources of bias. One method for adjusting for the residual biases in the estimation of …