Survival bias associated with time-to-treatment initiation in drug effectiveness evaluation: a comparison of methods

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2005
The authors compared five methods of studying survival bias associated with time-to-treatment initiation in a drug effectiveness study using medical administrative databases (1996-2002) from Quebec, Canada. The first two methods illustrated how survival bias could be introduced. Three additional met …
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Authors Zhou Z;Rahme E;Abrahamowicz M;Pilote L;;
Journal american journal of epidemiology
Year 2005
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16192344
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE Health Care humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't female male aged Drug Administration Schedule Comparative Study 80 and over Retrospective Studies Evaluation Study follow-up studies Cohort Studies Survival Analysis bias secondary prevention outcome and process assessment drug prescriptions / statistics & numerical data myocardial infarction / prevention & control quebec / epidemiology pmid:16192344 doi:10.1093/aje/kwi307 zheng zhou elham rahme louise pilote hydroxymethylglutaryl-coa reductase inhibitors / administration & dosage* myocardial infarction / drug therapy* myocardial infarction / mortality*

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