Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Penning de Vries, Bas B L
• Groenwold, Rolf H H

Titel

Cautionary note: propensity score matching does not account for bias due to censoring

Ist Teil von

• Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation, 2018-06, Vol.33 (6), p.914-916

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article gives a review of the limitations of propensity score matching as a tool for confounding control in the presence of censoring. Using an illustrative simulation study, we emphasize the importance of explicit adjustment for selective loss to follow-up and explain how this may be achieved.