Methods Best Practices from HSR
The following collection is a subset of the methods-focused articles published in HSR. Each article covers best practices with respect to a particular quantitative or qualitative method or issue. This is a growing collection, and more HSR "methods best practices" articles will be added as they are published.
Edward C. Norton, Bryan E. Dowd, Melissa M. Garrido, Matthew L. Maciejewski
Implementation of Resource Use Measures in Medicare Advantage
Jeah Jung, Caroline Carlin, Roger Feldman, Linh Tran
Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Comparing Controlled Pre-Post Designs
Carrie E. Fry, Laura A. Hatfield
Confounding and regression adjustment in difference-in-differences studies
Bret Zeldow, Laura A. Hatfield
Matching and Regression to the Mean in Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Jamie R. Daw, Laura A. Hatfield
Two‐Stage Residual Inclusion Estimation in Health Services Research and Health Economics
Joseph V. Terza
Log Odds and the Interpretation of Logit Models
Edward C. Norton, Bryan E. Dowd
A Practical Guide to Using the Positive Deviance Method in Health Services Research
Adam J. Rose, Megan B. McCullough, Bryan E. Dowd
Falsification Testing of Instrumental Variables Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Steven D. Pizer
Using Grounded Theory Method to Capture and Analyze Health Care Experiences
Geraldine Foley, Virpi Timonen
Why We Should Not Be Indifferent to Specification Choices for Difference‐in‐Differences
Andrew M. Ryan, James F. Burgess, Justin B. Dimick
Methods for Constructing and Assessing Propensity Scores
Melissa M. Garrido, Amy S. Kelley, Julia Paris, Katherine Roza, Diane E. Meier, R. Sean Morrison, Melissa D. Aldridge
Computation of Standard Errors
Bryan E. Dowd, William H. Greene, Edward C. Norton
Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, Marilyn V. Whitman
Interaction Terms in Nonlinear Models
Pinar Karaca‐Mandic, Edward C. Norton, Bryan Dowd