Real World Health Care Data Analysis

Chapter 5: Before You Analyze – Feasibility Assessment

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Best Practices for Assessing Feasibility: Common Support

5.2.1 Walker’s Preference Score and Clinical Equipoise

5.2.2 Standardized Differences in Means and Variance Ratios

5.2.3 Tipton’s Index

5.2.4 Proportion of Near Matches

5.2.5 Trimming the Population

5.3 Best Practices for Assessing Feasibility: Assessing Balance

5.3.1 The Standardized Difference for Assessing Balance at the Individual Covariate Level

5.3.2 The Prognostic Score for Assessing Balance

5.4 Example: REFLECTIONS Data

5.4.1 Feasibility Assessment Using the Reflections Data

5.4.2 Balance Assessment Using the Reflections Data

5.5 Summary

References

5.1 Introduction

This chapter demonstrates the final pieces ...