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1. Pharmacoepidemiology Toolbox
2. Combined Comorbidity Score
3. Sensitivity Analysis
4. Clustered Permutation & Logrank Tests
5. Episheet
6. Causal Contrasts
7. British Columbia ChIPS

 

 

Pharmacoepidemiology Toolbox including High-dimensional Propensity Score (hd-PS) Adjustment version 2 (beta)

• Important Notes for Version 244 and Later — Please Read (.txt file)
• Rassen JA, Glynn RJ, Brookhart MA, Schneeweiss S. Covariate selection in high-dimensional propensity score analyses of treatment effects in small samples. Am J Epidemiol 2011 Jun 15; 173(12):1404-13. Epub 2011 May 20
• Toolbox Download (.zip file, version 2.4.11)
• Using the Pharmacoepi Toolbox in SAS Documentation (.pdf file)

Combined Comorbidity Score for Claims Data

• SAS Code (.txt format)
• Gagne JJ, Glynn RJ, Avorn J, Levin R, Schneeweiss S. A combined comorbidity score predicted mortality in elderly patients better than existing scores. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2011 Jan 3.

Sensitivity Analysis

• Sensitivity Analysis of Confounding: April 20, 2008 (.xls format)
• Schneeweiss S. Sensitivity analysis and external adjustment for unmeasured confounders in epidemiologic database studies of therapeutics. Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety 2006 May. 15(5):291-303. (.pdf format)

Clustered Permutation Test

• Program to Generate Example Data (SAS code) (.txt format)
• Clustered Permutation Test Macro (SAS code) (.txt format)
• For documentation of the software see: Stedman MR, Gagnon DR, Lew RA, Solomon DH, Losina E, Brookhart MA. A SAS Macro for the Clustered Permutation Test. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 95(2009) 89–94.

Clustered Logrank Test

• Example Data (.sas7bdat format)
• Clustered Logrank Test Macro (SAS Code) (.txt format)
• Stedman MR, Gagnon DR, Lew RA, Jung SH, Losina E, Brookhart MA. A SAS macro for a clustered logrank test. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2011 Apr 13. [Epub ahead of print]

Episheet

• Episheet by Ken Rothman (.xls format) – Spreadsheets for the Analysis of Epidemiologic Data

Causal Contrasts

• Readme: March 2006 (.txt format)
• Causal.Comp.V1: March3006 (.xls format) — The Causal.Comp. Excel spreadsheet allows easy calculation of several summary estimates for an exposure of interest – outcome association in the presence of a dichotomous covariate which can be a confounder or not and an effect-measure modifier (multiplicative scale) or not. The spreadsheet should be used after reading:
• Sturmer T, Rothman KJ, Glynn RJ. Insights into different results from different causal contrasts in the presence of effect-measure modification. Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety 2006 Oct. 15(10):698-709.

British Columbia Chart Insert Pilot Study (BC ChIPS)

• Price Speedometer (.pdf format)
• Split & Save on Statins (.pdf format)
• How do you split your cholesterol tablet? (.pdf format)