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Abstract #300533

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Activity Number: 126
Type: Luncheons
Date/Time: Monday, August 9, 2004 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #300533
Title: Propensity Scores: Helping Non-Statisticians Get The Message - SOLD OUT
Author(s): Thomas E. Love*+
Companies: Case Western Reserve University
Address: Center for Health Care Res. and Policy, Cleveland, OH, 44122,
Keywords: health policy ; consulting ; propensity score ; health services research ; statistical education ; observational study
Abstract:

There is an increasing call for statisticians to help justify causal inferences from observational or quasi-experimental data, especially in health policy studies. As a result, propensity score (and related) methods are increasingly part of the statistician's daily lives. Yet these techniques are new to many of our "customers." At this roundtable, we will discuss effective ways to describe an observational study's results, assumptions, caveats and conclusions accurately and usefully for a clinical or policy-oriented audience, focusing on propensity score matching and regression-adjustment methods.

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