Cross-sectional studies: strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations

X Wang, Z Cheng - Chest, 2020 - Elsevier
Cross-sectional studies are observational studies that analyze data from a population at a
single point in time. They are often used to measure the prevalence of health outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Propensity score matching with R: conventional methods and new features

QY Zhao, JC Luo, Y Su, YJ Zhang… - Annals of translational …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is increasingly important to accurately and comprehensively estimate the effects of
particular clinical treatments. Although randomization is the current gold standard …

[HTML][HTML] Balance diagnostics after propensity score matching

Z Zhang, HJ Kim, G Lonjon, Y Zhu - Annals of translational …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Propensity score matching (PSM) is a popular method in clinical researches to create a
balanced covariate distribution between treated and untreated groups. However, the …

Pregnant women with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection are at higher risk of death and pneumonia: propensity score matched analysis of a nationwide prospective cohort …

RJ Martinez‐Portilla, A Sotiriadis… - … in Obstetrics & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective There are limited, unmatched data reporting low complication rates in pregnant
women with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). The aim of this study was to compare …

Statistical primer: propensity score matching and its alternatives

U Benedetto, SJ Head, GD Angelini… - European Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Propensity score (PS) methods offer certain advantages over more traditional regression
methods to control for confounding by indication in observational studies. Although …

Prophylactic corticosteroid use in patients receiving axicabtagene ciloleucel for large B‐cell lymphoma

OO Oluwole, K Bouabdallah, J Muñoz… - British journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Summary ZUMA‐1 (NCT02348216) examined the safety and efficacy of axicabtagene
ciloleucel (axi‐cel), an autologous CD19‐directed chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR)‐T cell …

Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in …

PC Austin, EA Stuart - Statistics in medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The propensity score is defined as a subject's probability of treatment selection, conditional
on observed baseline covariates. Weighting subjects by the inverse probability of treatment …

Why propensity scores should not be used for matching

G King, R Nielsen - Political analysis, 2019 - cambridge.org
We show that propensity score matching (PSM), an enormously popular method of
preprocessing data for causal inference, often accomplishes the opposite of its intended …

Variance estimation when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) with survival analysis

PC Austin - Statistics in medicine, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Propensity score methods are used to reduce the effects of observed confounding when
using observational data to estimate the effects of treatments or exposures. A popular …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy of first dose of covid-19 vaccine versus no vaccination on symptoms of patients with long covid: target trial emulation based on ComPaRe e-cohort

VT Tran, E Perrodeau, J Saldanha, I Pane… - BMJ …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Efficacy of first dose of covid-19 vaccine versus no vaccination on symptoms of patients with
long covid: target trial emulation based on ComPaRe e-cohort - PMC Back to Top Skip to main …