Abstract of Analysis of temporal trends in opioid prescribing: Assessing the Effectiveness of an opioid prescribing policy using segmented regression, difference in difference versus propensity …
We present an analysis of hospitalization rates following opioid and non-pharmacologic treatment among Medicare beneficiaries suffering from chronic back pain. Treatment for chronic back pain …
Background. Ukraine has one of the highest burdens of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) in the world, and since 2014, the country has been involved in an …
There exist many non-oral treatments for osteoporosis such as teriparatide and denosumab. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the causal effect of teriparatide …
Background: The treatment effect observed in randomized controlled trials may not reflect the actual effect in the target population if the trial and target populations …
Causal inference in observational studies relies on the fundamental assumption that treatment assignments are ignorable conditional on observed covariates. For this reason, it has been …