title: Retrospective propensity score matching and the selection of surgical procedures: how precise can a propensity estimate be?
authors.affiliation: Cancer Institute Ariake Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan michitaka.honda@jfcr.or.jp.
authors.forename: Michitaka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.affiliation: Komatsu Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazumichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.affiliation: Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshi A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Furukawa
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*