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  • Biostatistics
  • Health Services Research

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  • Postlaunch medical treatment data analysis is crucial for understanding adverse events and real-world effectiveness.
  • Confounding and model misspecification pose significant challenges in analyzing observational healthcare data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the performance of logistic regression, propensity score, disease risk score, and inverse probability weighting methods in adjusting for confounding.
  • To evaluate these methods under conditions of model misspecification and low events per coefficient.

Main Methods:

  • A simulation study was conducted using independent derivation datasets with induced model misspecification.
  • Performance was assessed using metrics including relative bias and confidence interval coverage.
  • Four statistical methods were compared: logistic regression, propensity score, disease risk score, and stabilized inverse probability weighting.

Main Results:

  • Logistic regression exhibited substantial bias (> -100%) at low events per coefficient (1.0 and 0.5).
  • Disease risk score methods showed lower bias (≤ 18.83%) compared to logistic regression and propensity score models.
  • Inverse probability weighting frequently failed or resulted in crude regression estimates with significant bias at low event counts.

Conclusions:

  • Disease risk score methods are a viable alternative to logistic regression, particularly when propensity score models are unsuitable.
  • While disease risk score methods outperform logistic regression and propensity score models in low events per coefficient settings, bias and coverage issues persist.