Propensity scores: help or hype?

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Published in Nephrol Dial Transplant on April 06, 2004

Authors

Wolfgang C Winkelmayer1, Tobias Kurth

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. wolfgang@post.harvard.edu

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