Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2018 Jun 1;33(6):914-916. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfx198.
This article gives a review of the limitations of propensity score matching as a tool for confounding control in the presence of censoring. Using an illustrative simulation study, we emphasize the importance of explicit adjustment for selective loss to follow-up and explain how this may be achieved.
本文回顾了在存在删失的情况下,倾向评分匹配作为混杂控制工具的局限性。通过一个说明性的模拟研究,我们强调了明确调整选择性随访丢失的重要性,并解释了如何实现这一点。