Well-being and obesity of rheumatism athritis patients
N.T. Longford, C. Nicodemo, M. Nunez and E. Nunez
Abstract
We apply the potential outcomes framework in the analysis
of an observational study of rheumatoid arthritis patients,
in which we compare the mean functional-health and well-being
scores (SF-36) of patients who are overweight and who are not.
We combine propensity score matching with multiple imputation
for nonresponse.
We check that the conclusions are not sensitive to the details
of the propensity model and the definition of being overweight.
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 11,
27-43; July 2011.