Data analysis methods for assessing palliative care interventions in one-group pre–post studies

Objectives: Studies of palliative care are often performed using single-arm pre–post study designs that lack causal inference. Thus, in this study, we propose a novel data analysis approach that incorporates risk factors from single-arm studies instead of using paired t-tests to assess intervention...

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Main Authors: Takeshi Ioroi, Tatsuyuki Kakuma, Akihiro Sakashita, Yuki Miki, Kanako Ohtagaki, Yuka Fujiwara, Yuko Utsubo, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Midori Hirai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-11-01
Series:SAGE Open Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312115621313