Propensity scores for confounder adjustment when assessing the effects of medical interventions using nonexperimental study designs
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Treatment effects, especially when comparing two or more therapeutic alternatives as in comparative effectiveness research, are likely to be heterogeneous across age, gender, co‐morbidities and co‐medications. Propensity scores (
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