Analytic strategies to adjust confounding using exposure propensity scores and disease risk scores: nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and short-term mortality in the elderly.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on May 01, 2005

Authors

Til Stürmer1, Sebastian Schneeweiss, M Alan Brookhart, Kenneth J Rothman, Jerry Avorn, Robert J Glynn

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02120, USA. til.sturmer@post.harvard.edu

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