Propensity Score Methods in Health Technology Assessment: Principles, Extended Applications, and Recent Advances

• Main Authors: M Sanni Ali (Author), Daniel Prieto-Alhambra (Author), Luciane Cruz Lopes (Author), Dandara Ramos (Author), Nivea Bispo (Author), Maria Y. Ichihara (Author), Julia M. Pescarini (Author), Elizabeth Williamson (Author), Rosemeire L. Fiaccone (Author), Mauricio L. Barreto (Author), Liam Smeeth (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Randomized clinical trials (RCT) are accepted as the gold-standard approaches to measure effects of intervention or treatment on outcomes. They are also the designs of choice for health technology assessment (HTA). Randomization ensures comparability, in both measured and unmeasured pretreatment cha...