PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
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Thu, Jan 17 |
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C-1 Your Health at Risk |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Laura Lee Johnson, National Institutes of Health |
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8:30 AM |
Smoking Cessation and Cigarrette Tax Avoidance: A Latent Variable Panel Data Analysis
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8:45 AM |
Substance Abuse Prevention - A National Picture
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9:00 AM |
Model for planning and evalutaion of programs aimed at changing risk behaviors: the VEER model
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9:15 AM |
Patient teenagers: Virginity pledges as a marker for lower sexual activity
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9:30 AM |
The Role of Health and Health Behaviors in the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Ties
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9:45 AM |
Using a Modified Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient to Enhance Interpretation of Treatment Effect on Patient-reported Outcomes
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I-8 Assessing Causation in Observational Studies: Propensity Scores and Instrumental Variables |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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Organizer(s): Thomas Ezra Love, Case Western Reserve University |
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Chair(s): Thomas Ezra Love, Case Western Reserve University |
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8:30 AM |
Analysis of Observational Studies in the Presence of Treatment Selection Bias: Effects of Invasive Cardiac Management on AMI Survival using Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Methods
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9:00 AM |
Propensity Score Uses and Misuses in Observational Research
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9:30 AM |
The Strength of Instrumental Variables and Their Sensitivity to Unobserved Biases
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TC-1 Missing and Latent Data in Health Policy Research: Advances in Applications |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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Organizer(s): Susan M Paddock, RAND Corporation |
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Chair(s): Marika Suttorp, RAND |
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8:30 AM |
Using an Approximate Bayesian Bootstrap to Multiply Impute Nonignorable Missing Data
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8:55 AM |
Bayesian variable selection for analyzing longitudinal substance abuse treatment data with informative censoring
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9:20 AM |
Imputation in a Complex Survey of Cancer Care
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9:45 AM |
Bayesian Analysis for Mixtures of Continuous, Ordinal and Nominal Repeated Measures
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WK1 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS): A National Data Resource to Inform Health Policy |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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8:30 AM |
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS): A National Data Resource to Inform Health Policy
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C-2 Applied Modeling of Health Outcomes |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Arlene S Ash, Boston U and DxCG, Inc. |
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10:30 AM |
Burden of Diabetes in Quetta – Pakistan: A statistical approach
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10:45 AM |
Impact of a Depression Disease Management Program on Productivity
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11:00 AM |
Predicting Depression Status in the Elderly: An Example from Medicare CAHPS Surveys
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11:15 AM |
Transitions in Depression Status among Elderly: How to Analyze?
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11:30 AM |
Repeated Measures Analysis of Functional Limitations in Elderly
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11:45 AM |
A Comparison of Methods for Estimating Chronic Disease Incidence from Linked Administrative Health Data
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I-1 Alternative Estimators for Cost Data |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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Organizer(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System |
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Chair(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System |
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10:30 AM |
Comparing Methods of Modeling Health Care Expenditures
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11:00 AM |
Two-part random effects models for longitudinal cost data
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11:30 AM |
Use of propensity scores in non-linear response models
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12:00 PM |
Discussant:
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I-9 Multiple Imputation Algorithms for Response Errors and Nonignorable Mechanisms |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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Organizer(s): Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar, Rand |
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Chair(s): Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar, Rand |
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10:30 AM |
Multiply eliminating outliers using multiple imputation
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11:00 AM |
Missing Data
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11:30 AM |
Imputing underreported treatments using multiple sources of treatment information in a cancer services study
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WK2 Competing Risks |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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10:30 AM |
Competing Risks
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Luncheon Data on Risk and Insurance Financing in a World of Decentralized Health Reform |
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Mark V. Pauly is Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Systems at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches health care systems, insurance and risk management, and business and public policy at the Wharton School and economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. Pauly is a former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission and a former member of the advisory committee to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Most recently, he was a member of the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel, and he is an active member of the Institute of Medicine. He is coeditor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Pauly’s books include Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-Related Health Insurance, Supplying Vaccine: An Economic Analysis of Critical Issues, and Financing Long Term Care: What Should Be the Government’s Role? |
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C-3 How Much Does It Cost? |
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Anirban Basu, University of Chicago |
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2:15 PM |
Use of Weighted Predictor in Insurance Pricing
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2:30 PM |
Individual vs. Group Predictive Modeling for Small Group Renewal Underwriting
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2:45 PM |
Estimating the marginal costs of training a physician in the US.
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3:00 PM |
Avoiding Retransformation in Nonnnegative Health Economic Models with Sample Selection
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3:15 PM |
Robust regression approach to the analysis of cost data
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3:30 PM |
Hybrid (classification and regression) approach for selection of members for disease management programs
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TC-2 Value of Information (VOI): Analyses for Health Care Decisions and Future Research |
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Glenn Davies, Merck Research Laboratories |
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Chair(s): Glenn Davies, Merck Research Laboratories |
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2:15 PM |
Value of Information Analysis in Health Policy Decision-Making: Current States and Future Applications
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2:40 PM |
EVI and the design and interpretation of clinical trials
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3:05 PM |
Bringing value of information analysis to the masses – Challenges and practical steps
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3:30 PM |
VOI: is it ready for prime time?
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WK3 Microsimulation Modeling |
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
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2:15 PM |
Microsimulation Modeling
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C-4 Meta-Analysis I |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Joseph C Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc |
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4:15 PM |
Data Extraction Errors in Meta-analyses of Diagnostic Tests
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4:30 PM |
Cochrane Back Group Quality Items and Bias in Back Pain Trials
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4:45 PM |
Evaluation of Reporting Quality in Publications of Diagnostic Tests
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5:00 PM |
What If I’d Known Then What I Know Now? Re-Evaluating Diagnostic Test Meta-Analyses With New Statistical Models
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5:15 PM |
Can Sequential Monitoring Boundaries reduce Spurious Inferences from Meta-Analyses?
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5:30 PM |
Estimating required information size and quantifying diversity in a meta-analysis.
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I-2 Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratios (ICERs) and Net Health Benefits (NHBs): Statistical, Economic, and Policy Issues |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Organizer(s): George Carides, Merck & Co. |
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Chair(s): John Cook, Merck and Co., Inc. |
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2:45 PM |
Joint Distribution Approaches to Quantifying Benefit and Risk in Clinical Trials
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3:15 PM |
Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios, Net Benefit and Healthcare Decision-Making: A Policy Perspective
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3:45 PM |
Discussant:
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4:15 PM |
ICER vs. INHB: The Statistical Issues
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I-3 Trends in Medical Costs for Persons with Chronic Conditions |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Steven B Cohen, AHRQ |
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Chair(s): Joshua T. Cohen, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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4:15 PM |
Testing for Survey Attrition Effects on Chronic Disease Care Cost Estimates in a National Longitudinal Medical Expenditure Survey
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4:45 PM |
Predicting Expenditures for Persons with Chronic Conditions
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5:15 PM |
Accuracy of Household Reported Medical Conditions: Findings from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
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TC-3 Models for Measuring Health Disparities at the National, Regional and Local Levels |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Marc N. Elliott, The RAND Corporation |
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Chair(s): Amelia Haviland, RAND Corporation |
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4:15 PM |
Measuring Health Disparities in Healthy People 2010
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4:40 PM |
Measuring Disparity over Inherently Ranked Groups
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5:05 PM |
A New Method for Estimating Race/Ethnicity and Associated Disparities Where Administrative Records Lack Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity
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5:30 PM |
Emerging Interactive Mapping Tools for Identifying Disparities and Targeting Interventions
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WK4 Cluster Randomized Trials in Health Policy Research |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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4:15 PM |
Cluster Randomized Trials in Health Policy Research
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Poster Session and Reception |
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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P1 - Introducing Bayesian Data Analysis to Non-Statisticians in a Frequentist Course: Illustration with NDNQI Data
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P2 - Grouping Hospitals by Quality - A PRIDIT Approach with Bootstrapping
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P3 - Analysis of Policy-Induced Therapy Change among Patients on Olanzapine Using Florida (FL) Medicaid Claims Database
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P4 - Evaluation of Selection Bias in Literacy Studies for English- and Spanish-Speaking Cancer Patients
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P5 - Multilevel Spatial Logistical Model for Neighborhood Effects Analysis
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P6 - The contribution of risk adjustment methods when estimating medical costs for persons by specialty of their usual source of care.
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P7 - Evaluation of methods for estimating the incremental costs of providing behavioral change services in primary care physician practices.
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P8 - Weighting Within Strata: A New Propensity Weight
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Fri, Jan 18 |
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C-5 Applications of Multi-Level Hierarchical and Cluster Data Models |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): James O'Malley, Harvard Medical School |
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8:30 AM |
The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Evaluation
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8:45 AM |
A Flexible Two-Part Random Effects Model for Correlated Medical Costs
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9:00 AM |
Cross-Classified Random Effects Analysis of Hospital and Surgeon Volume
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9:15 AM |
Using and Testing Constructs related to Evidence-based Medicine to Improve the Quality of Care in Office Practices
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9:30 AM |
Combining National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and Census Data to Estimate Healthcare Access Deprivation Index for Small Neighborhood Areas in US: A Multilevel Approach
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9:45 AM |
Predictors of Nonresponse to 2007 Medicare CAHPS Survey
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I-10 Statistical and Economic Perspectives on Utilzation, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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Organizer(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System |
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Chair(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System |
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8:30 AM |
Providing Primary Care Providers with Incentives for Appropriate Emergency Department Use
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9:00 AM |
Statistical and economic perspectives on utilization, costs, and cost-effectiveness
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9:30 AM |
Analysis of costs for cost-effectiveness from the perspective of a health economist
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I-4 Future Directions in Health Policy Statistics |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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Organizer(s): Juned Siddique, The University of Chicago |
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Chair(s): Juned Siddique, The University of Chicago |
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8:30 AM |
The Statistics of Suicide
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9:00 AM |
Combining Information from Multiple Surveys to Enhance Estimation of Measures of Health
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9:30 AM |
Using Latent Variable Models for Assessing Quality of Health Care: Issues and Applications
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WK5 Applied Longitudinal Analysis |
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
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8:30 AM |
Applied Longitudinal Analysis
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C-6 Meta-Analysis II |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Joseph C Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc |
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10:30 AM |
Incorporating uncertainty of between-study variance estimates increases the reliability of biased random-effects meta-analysis
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10:50 AM |
Disagreements in statistical inferences from the random-effects meta-analyses model based on different between-study variance estimators
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11:10 AM |
What is the Effect of Zero Cells in a Meta-Analysis
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11:30 AM |
Meta-Analysis for Drug Safety Assessment
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11:50 AM |
Much Ado About Avandia: The meta-analysis of rare events in the service of health policy
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C-9 Applications of Survival Analyses to Health Related Outcomes |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Norma Terrin, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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10:30 AM |
Association Between Nurse Staffing and Hospital Mortality: Methodological considerations
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10:45 AM |
A Temporal, Multi-City Model to Estimate the Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution on Health
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11:00 AM |
A Strategy to Characterize Chemotherapy Diffusion with Population-Based Data
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11:15 AM |
Profiling hospital differences in the quality of CABG surgery using quality-adjusted life years
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11:30 AM |
An intrinsically valid approach to integrate several health outcomes into a comprehensive score
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11:45 AM |
A Shared Parameter Model for Continuous Longitudinal Data with Dropouts under Latent Class Structure
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I-5 Causal Methods: Advances and Applications in Health |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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Organizer(s): Amelia Haviland, RAND Corporation |
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Chair(s): Thomas R Belin, The University of California-Los Angeles |
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10:30 AM |
Defining "baseline" using propensity score matching: Application to a clinical trial
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10:55 AM |
Propensity Scores and Multiple Treatments: Application to CAHPS Health Care Ratings
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11:20 AM |
Intervening on Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: An Application of the Parametric G-Formula
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11:45 AM |
Gangs and Teen Violence: A Matched Analysis using Trajectory Groups and Propensity Scores
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WK6 Reducing the Impact of Selection Bias with Propensity Scores |
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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10:30 AM |
Reducing the Impact of Selection Bias with Propensity Scores
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C-7 Statistical Potpourri |
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Juned Siddique, The University of Chicago |
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2:15 PM |
Economic and Statistical Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Inference
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2:30 PM |
Use of a Listed Sample to Supplement and Improve the Accuracy of a Probability Sample
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2:45 PM |
An Analytical Study: Better Approach For Health Policy Statistics
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3:00 PM |
The Positive Influence Generation
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3:15 PM |
Travel flow Scan Statistics for Infectious Disease Surveillance
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3:30 PM |
First order geometric stable process
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I-6 Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data |
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan |
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Chair(s): Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan |
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2:15 PM |
Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival-Cure Model
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2:40 PM |
Statistical Methods for Adjusting Selection Bias in Longitudinal Survey
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3:05 PM |
Approximate Bayesian Model Averaging for Latent Class Pattern Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Classes
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3:30 PM |
Evaluating Time-Varying Service Implement on Longitudinal Outcome using Joint Analysis Approach
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TC-4 Evaluating Policy Issues with a Triangulation of Methods Using the Burden of Herpes Zoster as an Example |
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Robbin F. Itzler, Merck Research Laboratories |
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Chair(s): Robbin F. Itzler, Merck Research Laboratories |
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2:15 PM |
Analysis of Claims Data to Assess Resource Utilization and Costs Using Herpes Zoster as an Example
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2:35 PM |
Use of Claims Data To Assess the Resource Utilization and Costs of Herpes Zoster in the First Year After Diagnosis
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2:55 PM |
Use of Propensity Score Matching with Claims Data to Assess the Resource Utilization and Costs Attributable to HZ
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3:15 PM |
Use of Chart Abstractions Based on Reviews of Medical Records to Assess the Healthcare Resource Utilization and Cost of Herpes Zoster
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3:35 PM |
Building an Understanding of the Economics of a New Vaccine Through the Use of Clinical Trial and Non-Clinical Trial Data: The Case of the Zoster Vaccine
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WK7 Intermediate Bayesian Data Analysis Using WinBUGS and Brugs |
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
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2:15 PM |
Intermediate Bayesian Data Analysis Using WinBUGS and BRugs
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C-8 Propensity Scores |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center |
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Chair(s): Eloise Kaizar, The Ohio State University |
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4:15 PM |
Multiple Imputation for the Comparison of Two Screening Test in Two Phase Alzheimer Studies
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4:35 PM |
Comparison of Hot Deck and Multiple Imputation Methods Using Simulations for HCSDB Data
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4:55 PM |
Cluster Membership provides Guaranteed Balancing Scores.
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5:15 PM |
Sufficient Dimension Reduction Summaries
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5:35 PM |
Deconfounding small quasi-experiments using propensity scores and other dimension reduction techniques
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I-11 Conceptual Issues (and Practical Implications) in Measuring Health Disparities |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Organizer(s): James Patrick Scanlan, Attorney at Law |
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Chair(s): Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar, Rand |
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4:15 PM |
Can we actually measure health disparities?
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4:45 PM |
Measuring Disparities in Healthy People 2010
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5:15 PM |
Using the concentration index to measure disparities in binary variables
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I-7 Economic Assessments in Randomized Trials |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Organizer(s): Jalpa Doshi, University of Pennsylvania; Henry A Glick, University of Pennsylvania |
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Discussant(s): John Cook, Merck and Co., Inc. |
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WK8 Hierarchical and Joint Longitudinal and Survival Modeling Using WinBUGS |
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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4:15 PM |
Hierarchical and Joint Longitudinal and Survival Modeling Using WinBUGS
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