DATA LINKAGE TO IMPROVE CAUSAL ANALYSES WITH SECONDARY DATA:
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Lin KJ, Schneeweiss S. Considerations on the Analysis of Longitudinal Electronic Heath Records Linked to Claims Data to Study the Effectiveness and Safety of Drugs. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2016 Aug;100(2):147-59. |
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Lin KJ, Singer DE, Glynn RJ, Murphy SN, Lii J, Schneeweiss S. Identifying Patients with High Data Completeness to Improve Validity of Comparative Effectiveness Research in Electronic Health Records Data. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2018;103(5):899-905. |
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Lin KJ, Glynn RJ, Singer DE, Murphy SN, Lii J, Schneeweiss S. Out-of-system Care and Recording of Patient Characteristics Critical for Comparative Effectiveness Research. Epidemiology. 2018;29(3):356-363. |
CONFOUNDING CONTROL METHODS:
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Schneeweiss S, Eddings W, Glynn RJ, Patorno E, Rassen J, Franklin JM. Variable Selection for Confounding Adjustment in High-dimensional Covariate Spaces When Analyzing Healthcare Databases. Epidemiology. 2017 Mar;28(2):237-248. |
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Wyss R, Schneeweiss S, van der Laan M, Lendle SD, Ju C, Franklin JM. Using Super Learner Predication Modeling to Improve High-dimensional Propensity Score Estimation. Epidemiology. 2018 Jan;29(1):96-106. |
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Franklin JM, Eddings W, Austin PC, Stuart EA, Schneeweiss S. Comparing the performance of propensity score methods in healthcare database studies with rare outcomes. Stat Med. 2017 May 30;36(12):1946-1963. |
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Wang SV, Jin Y, Fireman B, Gruber S, He M, Wyss R, Shin H, Ma Y, Keeton S, Karami S, Major JM, Schneeweiss S, Gagne JJ. Relative Performance of Propensity Score Matching Strategies for Subgroup Analyses. Am J Epidemiol. 2018 Mar 15. |
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Desai RJ, Rothman KJ, Bateman BT, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huybrechts KF. A Propensity-score-based Fine Stratification Approach for Confounding Adjustment When Exposure Is Infrequent. Epidemiology. 2017 Mar;28(2):249-257. |
INDEX OR RISK SCORE FOR PATIENT CHARACTERIZATION:
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Gagne JJ, Glynn RJ, Avorn J, Levin R, Schneeweiss S. A combined comorbidity score predicted mortality in elderly patients better than existing scores. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2011;64(7):749-59. |
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Sun JW, Rogers JR, Her Q, Welch EC, Panozzo CA, Toh S, Gagne JJ. Adaptation and Validation of the Combined Comorbidity Score for ICD-10-CM. Medical Care. 2017 Dec 1;55(12):1046-51. |
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Kim DH, Schneeweiss S, Glynn RJ, Lipsitz LA, Rockwood K, Avorn J. Measuring Frailty in Medicare Data: Development and Validation of a Claims-Based Frailty Index. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2018 Jun 14;73(7):980-987. |
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Kim DH, Schneeweiss S, Glynn R. Comparing Approaches to Measure Frailty in Medicare Data – Deficit-Accumulation Frailty Index Versus Phenotypic Frailty. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2018. |
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Kim DH, Glynn RJ, Avorn J, Lipsitz LA, Rockwood K, Pawar A, Schneeweiss S. Validation of a Claims-Based Frailty Index Against Physical Performance and Adverse Health Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2018 Aug 27. PMID: 30165612. |
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS:
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Schneeweiss S. Sensitivity analysis and external adjustment for unmeasured confounders in epidemiologic database studies of therapeutics. Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety 2006 May. 15(5):291-303. |