A critical appraisal of propensity-score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003

• Published in: Statistics in medicine Vol. 27; no. 12; pp. 2037 - 2049
• Main Author: Austin, Peter C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 30.05.2008; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Biomedical Research - statistics & numerical data; Biometry; Comparative analysis; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Effects; Estimation bias; Matched-Pair Analysis; matching; Medical treatment; Medicine in Literature; Models, Statistical; observational studies; Patient Selection; propensity score; Regression analysis; Selection Bias; Statistical methods; systematic review; Treatment Outcome

Propensity‐score methods are increasingly being used to reduce the impact of treatment‐selection bias in the estimation of treatment effects using observational data. Commonly used propensity‐score methods include covariate adjustment using the propensity score, stratification on the propensity scor...