Dictionary
The Dictionary provides concise definitions of health economics terms, arranged alphabetically for quick reference. Use it to understand unfamiliar terminology or confirm the meaning of a specific term.
C
- Confounder
- A variable associated with both the exposure being studied and the outcome of interest, without being a step in the causal pathway between them.
P
- Propensity Score
- The estimated probability that an individual would receive a particular treatment given their observed characteristics, used to balance confounders in observational studies.
U
- Unmeasured Confounding
- A situation where a true confounder exists but was not recorded, preventing statistical adjustment for its distorting effect on an association.