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  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Medical Research

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  • Propensity score analysis (PSA) is a common method to control for confounders in medical studies.
  • Conventional PSA uses time-fixed covariates, which can introduce bias when treatments or exposures vary over time.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address bias in PSA caused by time-dependent exposures.
  • To evaluate methods for handling time-varying confounders in observational studies.

Main Methods:

  • Simulation study with a known treatment effect.
  • Comparison of conventional PSA (logistic/Cox regression with time-fixed covariates) versus time-dependent PSA matching.
  • Analysis of matched cohorts using Cox regression or conditional logistic regression (CLR).

Main Results:

  • Conventional PSA methods using time-fixed covariates resulted in significant bias.
  • Time-dependent propensity score matching effectively reduced bias, approximating the true treatment effect.
  • The performance of time-dependent PS matching followed by Cox/CLR analysis was comparable to Cox regression with time-varying covariates.

Conclusions:

  • Time-dependent propensity score matching is a viable method to address confounding in the presence of time-varying exposures.
  • The developed TDPSM() function provides a practical tool for implementing time-dependent PSA matching in real-world datasets.