Propensity Score Methods for Confounding Control in Nonexperimental Research
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Nonexperimental studies are increasingly used to investigate the safety and effectiveness of medical products as they are used in routine care, and confounding, systematic differences in prognosis between patients exposed to an intervention of interest and the selected comparator group is a primary challenge.Abstract:
Nonexperimental studies are increasingly used to investigate the safety and effectiveness of medical products as they are used in routine care. One of the primary challenges of such studies is confounding, systematic differences in prognosis between patients exposed to an intervention of interest and the selected comparator group. In the presence of uncontrolled confounding, any observed difference in outcome risk between the groups cannot be attributed solely to a causal effect of the exposure on the outcome.
Confounding in studies of medical products can arise from a variety of different sociomedical processes.1 The most common form of confounding arises from good medical practice, physicians prescribing medications and performing procedures on patients who are most likely to benefit from them. This leads to a bias known as confounding by indication, which can cause medical interventions to appear to cause events that they prevent.2,3 Conversely, patients who are perceived by a physician to be near the end of life may be less likely to receive preventive medications, leading to confounding by frailty or comorbidity.4–6 Additional sources of confounding bias can result from patients’ health-related behaviors. For example, patients who initiate a preventive medication may be more likely than other patients to engage in other healthy, prevention-oriented behaviors leading to bias known as the healthy user/adherer effect.7–9
Many statistical approaches can be used to remove the confounding effects of such factors if they are captured in the data. The most common statistical approaches for confounding control are based on multivariable regression models of the outcome. To yield unbiased estimates of treatment effects, these approaches require that the researcher correctly models the effect of the treatment and covariates on the outcome. However, correct specification of an outcome model can be challenging, particularly in studies …read more
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