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SUBMITTER: Heroux J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5340564 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Héroux Julie J Moodie Erica E M EE Strumpf Erin E Coyle Natalie N Tousignant Pierre P Diop Mamadou M
Statistics in medicine 20131024 7
Evaluating the impacts of clinical or policy interventions on health care utilization requires addressing methodological challenges for causal inference while also analyzing highly skewed data. We examine the impact of registering with a Family Medicine Group, an integrated primary care model in Quebec, on hospitalization and emergency department visits using propensity scores to adjust for baseline characteristics and marginal structural models to account for time-varying exposures. We also eva ...[more]