Health services research
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Health services research · Oct 2014
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyMethods for constructing and assessing propensity scores.
To model the steps involved in preparing for and carrying out propensity score analyses by providing step-by-step guidance and Stata code applied to an empirical dataset. ⋯ Propensity scores are one useful tool for accounting for observed differences between treated and comparison groups. Careful testing of propensity scores is required before using them to estimate treatment effects.
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Health services research · Oct 2014
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyMethods for assessing patient-clinician communication about depression in primary care: what you see depends on how you look.
To advance research on depression communication and treatment by comparing assessments of communication about depression from patient report, clinician report, and chart review to assessments from transcripts. ⋯ Clinician report and chart review generally had the most favorable sensitivity and specificity for measuring discussion of depressive symptoms and treatment recommendations, respectively.