Development and Validation of an Index Score to Adjust for Healthy User Bias in Observational Studies.

CONCLUSION: Our healthy user index combined age, sex and healthy behaviors to predict healthy users within administrative datasets. This index score may allow for better adjustment of healthy user bias in health services research; however, external validation is further required. Key Words: Administrative Data Uses, Bias, Biostatistical Methods, Observational Data. PMID: 29432672 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: J Popul Ther Clin Pharmacol Source Type: research