The following is an alphabetical list of recommended articles on methods in health services research (HSR).  A subset of papers is identified by topic area in the navigation bar to the left.

Suggestions are welcome and may be sent to  hsrmethods@academyhealth.org .  Suggested articles will be reviewed and considered for inclusion in this list by the AcademyHealth Methods Council.

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Austin, P.C. et al. “A Comparison of the Ability of Different Propensity Score Models to Balance Measured Variables Between Treated and Untreated Subjects: a Monte Carlo Study,” Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 4, May 2006, pp. 734-753.

Basu A., and W.G. Manning, and J. Mullahy.  "Comparing Alternative Models: Log vs Cox Proportional Hazard?" Health Economics, Vol. 12, No. 8, 2004, pp. 749-765.

Berry, D.A. "Statistical Innovations in Cancer Research," Cancer Medicine, Vol. 6, 2003, pp. 465-478.

Brookhart, M.A. et al. “Evaluating Short-Term Drug Effects Using a Physician-Specific Prescribing Preference as an Instrumental Variable,” Epidemiology, Vol. 17, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 268-275.

Buntin, M.B. and A.M. Zaslavsky. “Too Much Ado About Two-Part Models and Transformation? Comparing Methods of Modeling Medicare Expenditures,” Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 23, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 525-542.

Egger, M. and G.D. Smith. "Meta-Analysis: Potentials and Promise," British Medical Journal, No. 315, 1997, pp. 1371-1374.

Egger, M. et al. "Meta-analysis: Principles and Procedures,"  British Medical Journal, No. 315, 1997, pp. 1533-1537.

Gibbons, Robert D. et al. “A Random-Effects Probit Model for Predicting Medical Malpractice Claims,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 89, 1994.

Greenhalgh, T. "How to Read a Paper: Papers that Summarise Other Papers (Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)," British Medical Journal, Vol. 315, No. 7109, pp. 672-675.

Harris, K. and D. Remler, “Who is the Marginal Patient? Understanding Instrumental Variables Estimates of Treatment Effects,” Health Services Research, No. 33, 1998, pp. 1337-1360.

Hedeker, D. and R.D. Gibbons. “A Random-Effects ordinal Regression Model for Multilevel Analysis,” Biometrics, Vol. 50, No. 4, Dec 1994, pp. 933-944.

Huang, I.C. et al. “Application of a Propensity Score Approach for Risk Adjustment in Profiling Multiple Physician Groups on Asthma Care,” Health Services Research, Vol. 1, No. 40, 2005, pp. 253-278.

Hughes, M. and P. Williams. “Challenges in Using Observational Studies to Evaluate Adverse Effects of Treatment,” New England Journal of Medicne, No. 356, 2007, pp.1705-1707.

Leamer, E. "Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics," The American Economic Review, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1983, pp. 31-43.

Maciejewski, M. et al. "Common Methodological Terms in Health Services Research and Their Symptoms,"  Medical Care, Vol. 20, No. 6, 2002, pp. 477-484.

Manning, W.G. “The Logged Dependent Variable, Heteroscedasticity, and the Retransformation Problem,” Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1998, pp. 283-295.

Manning, W.G. and J. Mullahy. “Estimating Log Models: To Transform or not to Transform?,” Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 20, No. 4, July 2001, pp. 461-94.

Manning WG, Basu A, Mullahy J (2005) "Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes." Journal of Health Economics. Vol. 24, No. 3, 2003, pp. 465-488.

Mennemeyer, S. “Can Econometrics Rescue Epidemiology?,” Annals of Epidemilogy, Vol. 7, 1997, pp. 249-250.

Newhouse, J.and M. McClellan. “Econometrics in Outcomes Research: The Use of Instrumental Variables,” Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 19, 1998, pp. 17-34.

Normand, Sharon-Lise T. et al. “Assessing the Accuracy of Hospital Clinical Performance Measures,” Medical Decision Making, Vol. 27, Jan 2007, pp. 9-20.

Permutt, T. and J.R. Hebel. “Simultaneous-Equation Estimation in a Clinical Trial of the Effect of Smoking on Birth Weight,” Biometrics, Vol. 45, No. 2, Jun 1989, pp. 619-622.

Pittman, P.M. et al. “U.S.-Based Recruitment of Foreign-Educated Nurses: Implications of an Emerging Industry,” American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 110, No. 6, June 2010, pp. 38-48.

Pizer, S.D. "An Intuitive Review of Methods for Observational Studies of Comparative Effectiveness." Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 54-68.

Rubin, DB. “Using Propensity Scores to Help Design Observational Studies: Application to Tobacco Litigation,” Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, Vol. 2, No. 3-4, Dec 2001, pp. 169-188.

Sidik, K. and J.N. Jonkman. “A Comparison of Heterogeneity Variance Estimators in Combining Results of Studies,” Statistics in Medicine, Vol 26, 2007, pp. 1964-1981.

Stukel, T. et al. "Analysis of Observational Studies in the Presence of Treatment Selection Bias: Effects of Invasive Cardiac Management on AMI Survival Using Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Methods," The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 297, 2007, pp. 278-285.

Stukel et al. “Using Observational Data to Estimate Treatment Effects,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 297, 2007, pp. 2078-2079.

Teddlie, C. and F. Yu.  "Mixed Methods Sampling: A Typology With Examples," Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Vol. 1, 2007, pp. 77-100.

Terza, Joseph V. and W. D. Bradford and C. E. Dismuke. "The Use of Linear Instrumental Variables Methods in Health Services Research and Health Economics: A Cautionary Note," Health Services Research, 2007.

Tooze, Janet A. “Analysis of Repeated Measures Data with Clumping at Zero,” Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2002, pp. 341-355.

Wolfe, R. and J. Hanley "If we're so different, why do we keep overlapping? When 1 plus 1 doesn't make 2." Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 166, No. 1, 2002, pp. 65-66.

Zhang, J. and F. Kai. “What's the Relative Risk? A Method of Correcting the Odds Ratio in Cohort Studies of Common Outcomes,” The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 280, 1998, pp. 1690-1691.

Zohoori, N. “Does Endogeneity Matter? A Comparison of Empirical Analyses With and Without Control for Endogeneity,” Annals of Epidemiology, Vol. 7, 1997, pp. 258-266.

Zohoori, N. and D.A. Savitz. “Econometric Approaches to Epidemiologic Data: Relating Endogeneity and Unobserved Heterogeneity to Confounding,” Annals of Epidemiology, Vol. 7, 1997, pp.251-267.