2022
Depression, Anxiety, and Patterns of Mental Health Care Among Men With Prostate Cancer Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy
Tsao P, Ross R, Bohnert A, Mukherjee B, Caram M. Depression, Anxiety, and Patterns of Mental Health Care Among Men With Prostate Cancer Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy. The Oncologist 2022, 27: 314-322. PMID: 35298660, PMCID: PMC8982372, DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyab033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAndrogen deprivation therapyMental health careProstate cancerMental health treatmentDiagnosis of depressionHealth careOptum's de-identified Clinformatics Data Mart DatabaseProstate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapyInitiation of androgen deprivation therapyHealth treatmentPatterns of mental health careClinformatics Data Mart DatabaseSerotonin reuptake inhibitorsAnxiety diagnosesPsychotropic medicationsSpecialty of providersData Mart DatabasePrimary care physiciansPrescribing of psychotropic medicationsIncidence of depressionProportion of menDeprivation therapyReuptake inhibitorsMedian timeProstate
2020
Veridical causal inference using propensity score methods for comparative effectiveness research with medical claims
Ross R, Shi X, Caram M, Tsao P, Lin P, Bohnert A, Zhang M, Mukherjee B. Veridical causal inference using propensity score methods for comparative effectiveness research with medical claims. Health Services And Outcomes Research Methodology 2020, 21: 206-228. PMID: 34040495, PMCID: PMC8142944, DOI: 10.1007/s10742-020-00222-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPropensity score methodsEstimate causal treatment effectsClaims-based studyCausal treatment effectsMedical insurance claimsPrivate payersScoring methodData Mart DatabaseMedical claimsSub-cohortEffectiveness researchPopulation-based inferenceInsurance claimsSelection biasCausal inferenceCompare findingsOnline version