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SUBMITTER: Richardson DB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6494663 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richardson David B DB Keil Alexander P AP Kinlaw Alan C AC Cole Stephen R SR
American journal of epidemiology 20190501 5
The disease risk score is a summary score that can be used to control for confounding with a potentially large set of covariates. While less widely used than the exposure propensity score, the disease risk score approach might be useful for novel or unusual exposures, when treatment indications or exposure patterns are rapidly changing, or when more is known about the nature of how covariates cause disease than is known about factors influencing propensity for the exposure of interest. Focusing ...[more]