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New Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Inference.
(2016)
In observational studies, unmeasured differences between treatment groups often confound the relationship of interest. Instrumental variable (IV) methods can give consistent effect estimates in the presence of this ...
Three Studies of Variation in Medical Decision-Making and Care Delivery by Physicians.
(2015)
In this dissertation, I examine the effects of select non-financial factors on the organizational and medical decisions of primary care practice managers, specialist consultants, and Veterans Health Administration (VA) ...
Patient–Physician Role Relationships and Patient Activation among Individuals with Chronic Illness
(Association of American Medical CollegesWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012-06)
An econometric method for estimating population parameters from non‐random samples: An application to clinical case finding
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Centre for Tuberculosis, 2017-09)
The problem of sample selection complicates the process of drawing inference about populations. Selective sampling arises in many real world situations when agents such as doctors and customs officials search for targets ...
Characterization of A. baumannii Environmental Survival and Biofilm Formation and the Impact on Environmental Transmission.
(2015)
Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative, opportunistic pathogen primarily affecting the critically ill, causing 3% of all nosocomial-related deaths in the United States. A. baumannii’s successful environmental survival ...
Variable selection in monotone single‐index models via the adaptive LASSO
(SpringerWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-09-30)
We consider the problem of variable selection for monotone single‐index models. A single‐index model assumes that the expectation of the outcome is an unknown function of a linear combination of covariates. Assuming ...
Ixabepilone, mitoxantrone, and prednisone for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer after docetaxel-based therapy
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-06-01)
BACKGROUND: Mitoxantrone plus prednisone and ixabepilone each have modest activity as monotherapy for second-line chemotherapy in patients with docetaxel-refractory castration-resistant prostate cancer. Clinical noncross- ...
A multi‐institutional phase 2 study of neoadjuvant gemcitabine and oxaliplatin with radiation therapy in patients with pancreatic cancer
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-08-01)
Questioning context: a set of interdisciplinary questions for investigating contextual factors affecting health decision making
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-06)
Objective To combine insights from multiple disciplines into a set of questions that can be used to investigate contextual factors affecting health decision making. Background Decision‐making processes and outcomes ...