Martha E Trudeau

Biographic Data

ID5536051
NAMEMartha E Trudeau
GIVEN NAMESMartha E
FAMILY NAMETrudeau
SIGNATURETRUDEAU M E
AFFILIATIONSVA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX0

  • Changes in Prognosis After the First Postoperative Complication

    Jeffrey H Silber, Paul R Rosenbaum et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2005References: 17

    BACKGROUND: Postoperative complications are common in the Medicare population, yet no study has formally quantified the change in prognosis that occurs after a broad range of first complications. OBJECTIVE: We sought to estimate the relative severity of 24 first postoperative complications. RESEARCH DESIGN: We undertook a multivariate matched, population-based, case-control study of death after surgery in a sample of 1362 Pennsylvania Medicare pa…

  • Multivariate Matching and Bias Reduction in the Surgical Outcomes Study

    Jeffrey H Silber, Paul R Rosenbaum et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2001References: 31

    BACKGROUND: Outcomes studies often need a level of detail that is not present in administrative data, therefore requiring abstraction of medical charts. Case-control methods may be used to improve statistical power and reduce abstraction costs, but limitations of exact matching often preclude the use of many covariates. Unlike exact matching, multivariate matching may allow cases to be matched simultaneously on hundreds of covariates. OBJECTIVES:…