Published in Pediatrics on July 09, 2012
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Possible incremental benefits of specialized rehabilitation bed units among veterans after lower extremity amputation. Med Care (2009) 0.91
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A powerful and robust test statistic for randomization inference in group-randomized trials with matched pairs of groups. Biometrics (2011) 0.89
The impact of obstetric unit closures on maternal and infant pregnancy outcomes. Health Serv Res (2012) 0.86
Neighborhood social environment and patterns of adherence to oral hypoglycemic agents among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Fam Community Health (2015) 0.86
Use of Individual-level Covariates to Improve Latent Class Analysis of Trypanosoma Cruzi Diagnostic Tests. Epidemiol Method (2012) 0.86
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Comparative effectiveness of oral diabetes drug combinations in reducing glycosylated hemoglobin. J Comp Eff Res (2014) 0.79
Impact of protected sleep period for internal medicine interns on overnight call on depression, burnout, and empathy. J Grad Med Educ (2014) 0.78
A randomized trial of a three-hour protected nap period in a medicine training program: sleep, alertness, and patient outcomes. Acad Med (2014) 0.77
Teaching hospital financial status and patient outcomes following ACGME duty hour reform. Health Serv Res (2012) 0.77
Do windows or natural views affect outcomes or costs among patients in ICUs? Crit Care Med (2013) 0.76
A brief adherence intervention that improved glycemic control: mediation by patterns of adherence. J Behav Med (2014) 0.75
The Trend-in-Trend Research Design for Causal Inference. Epidemiology (2016) 0.75
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Modeling parasite infection dynamics when there is heterogeneity and imperfect detectability. Biometrics (2013) 0.75
Calibrating sensitivity analyses to observed covariates in observational studies. Biometrics (2013) 0.75
Using ICU Congestion as a Natural Experiment. Crit Care Med (2016) 0.75
Epidemiologic research using probabilistic outcome definitions. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2014) 0.75
The Relationship Between Index Hospitalizations, Sepsis, and Death or Transition to Hospice Care During 30-Day Hospital Readmissions. Med Care (2016) 0.75
Shrinkage empirical likelihood estimator in longitudinal analysis with time-dependent covariates--application to modeling the health of Filipino children. Biometrics (2013) 0.75
Impact of community wealth on use of cardiac-resynchronization therapy with defibrillators for heart failure patients. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2012) 0.75
Large sample bounds on the survivor average causal effect in the presence of a binary covariate with conditionally ignorable treatment assignment. Int J Biostat (2014) 0.75
Efficient estimation of the attributable fraction when there are monotonicity constraints and interactions. Biostatistics (2012) 0.75