Propensity Score-Based Approaches to Confounding by Indication in Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis: Non-Standardized Treatment for Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis.

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Published in PLoS One on March 29, 2016

Authors

Gregory J Fox1, Andrea Benedetti1, Carole D Mitnick2, Madhukar Pai3, Dick Menzies1, Collaborative Group for Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data in MDR-TB

Author Affiliations

1: Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University, 2155 Guy St, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 2R9, Canada.
2: Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA, 02115, United States of America.
3: Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, H3A 1A2, Canada.

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