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Supplementing claims data with outpatient laboratory test results to improve confounding adjustment in effectiveness studies of lipid-lowering treatments

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Title
Supplementing claims data with outpatient laboratory test results to improve confounding adjustment in effectiveness studies of lipid-lowering treatments
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-12-180
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Authors

Sebastian Schneeweiss, Jeremy A Rassen, Robert J Glynn, Jessica Myers, Gregory W Daniel, Joseph Singer, Daniel H Solomon, SeoYoung Kim, Kenneth J Rothman, Jun Liu, Jerry Avorn

Abstract

Adjusting for laboratory test results may result in better confounding control when added to administrative claims data in the study of treatment effects. However, missing values can arise through several mechanisms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 8%
Netherlands 1 4%
Unknown 23 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 19%
Other 4 15%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 8%
Professor 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 50%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 8%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Chemistry 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 27%