“Clinical Stability” and Propensity Score Matching in Cardiac Surgery: is the clinical evaluation of treatment efficacy algorithmdependent in small sample size settings?

Background: Propensity score matching represents one of the most popular techniques to deal with treatment allocation bias in observational studies. However, when the number of enrolled patients is very low, the creation of matched set of subjects may highly depend on the model used to estimate i...

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Main Authors: Daniele Bottigliengo, Aslıhan Sentürk Acar, Veronica Sciannameo, Giulia Lorenzoni, Jonida Bejko, Tomaso Bottio, Emanuele Cozzi, Marta Vadori, Jean-Paul Soulillou, Thierry Le Torneau, Thomas Senage, Rafael Mañez, Cristina Costa, Vered Padler-Karavani, Sofia Scali, Massimiliano Carrozzini, Emilia Fiorello, Samuel Fusca, Gino Gerosa, Ileana Baldi, Paola Berchialla, Dario Gregori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2022-02-01
Series:Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/ebph/article/view/17307
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