ReviewStatistics in medicine2020
Matching with time-dependent treatments: A review and look forward.
Review in Statistics in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adjunctive Systemic Corticosteroids for Pulmonary Exacerbations of Cystic Fibrosis.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2024Trial
- New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cancer Risk: A Matched Cohort Study in China Kadoorie Biobank.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Intravenous methocarbamol for acute pain after spine surgery: a target trial emulation.Regional anesthesia and pain medicine · 2026Article
- On the reported methodology in published TriNetX-based studies: an analysis of impossible index event designs.European journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Design and Implementation of Observational Studies Emulating a Target Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Article
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- Answer to Letter to the Editor of L. Dai, et al. concerning "The association between postoperative physical therapy and opioid prescription after posterior lumbar interbody fusion: a retrospective cohort study of United States academic health centers" by Baumann AN, et al. (Eur Spine J [2025]: doi: 10.1007/s00586-025-08824-x).European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025Article
- Simultaneously Dealing With Immortal Time Bias and Residual Confounding: A Case Study of a High-Dimensional Propensity Score Approach With a Nested Case-Control Framework in Multiple Sclerosis Research.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2025Article
- Effect of Early and Delayed Treatment With Remdesivir on Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Comparing the effectiveness of different vaccines in individuals with and without autoimmune diseases: a study protocol for a target trial emulation.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A Review of Causal Inference Methods for Estimating the Effects of Exposure Change When Incident Exposure Is Unobservable.Current epidemiology reports · 2024Article
- A comparison of time-varying propensity score vs sequential stratification approaches to longitudinal matching with a time-varying treatment.BMC medical research methodology · 2024Article
- Impact of comprehensive medication reviews on potentially inappropriate medication discontinuation in Medicare beneficiaries.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
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- Opioid Coprescription Through Risk Mitigation Guidance and Opioid Agonist Treatment Receipt.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance opioid and stimulant dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during dual public health emergencies: retrospective cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Article
- Treatment of HCV with direct-acting antivirals on reducing mortality related to extrahepatic manifestations: a large population-based study in British Columbia, Canada.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
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- Impact of lumacaftor/ivacaftor and tezacaftor/ivacaftor on treatment response in pulmonary exacerbations of F508del/F508del cystic fibrosis.Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
Observational studies of treatment effects attempt to mimic a randomized experiment by balancing the covariate distribution in treated and control groups, thus removing biases related to measured confounders. Methods such as weighting, matching, and stratification, with or without a propensity score, are common in cross-sectional data. When treatments are initiated over longitudinal follow-up, a target pragmatic trial can be emulated using appropriate matching methods. The ideal experiment of interest is simple; patients would be enrolled sequentially, randomized to one or more treatments and followed subsequently. This tutorial defines a class of longitudinal matching methods that emulate this experiment and provides a review of existing variations, with guidance regarding study design, execution, and analysis. These principles are illustrated in application to the study of statins on cardiovascular outcomes in the Framingham Offspring cohort. We identify avenues for future research and highlight the relevance of this methodology to high-quality comparative effectiveness studies in the era of big data.
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