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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Published in JAMA on January 17, 2007

Authors

Thérèse A Stukel1, Elliott S Fisher, David E Wennberg, David A Alter, Daniel J Gottlieb, Marian J Vermeulen

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1: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. stukel@ices.on.ca

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