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Til Stürmer is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States and has a substantial body of work in the field of medicine. Their research encompasses a broad spectrum of subfields, including economics and econometrics, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, surgery, statistics and probability, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research topics are diverse, covering health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; advanced causal inference techniques; diabetes treatment and management; COVID-19 clinical research studies; statistical methods in clinical trials; diabetes management and research; and pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes.

Stürmer's recent papers include:

  • Long COVID risk and pre-COVID vaccination in an EHR-based cohort study from the RECOVER program, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Propensity Score Weighting and Trimming Strategies for Reducing Variance and Bias of Treatment Effect Estimates: A Simulation Study, 2021, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Using propensity scores to estimate effects of treatment initiation decisions: State of the science, 2020, Statistics in Medicine
  • Real-world evidence: the devil is in the detail, 2020, Diabetologia
  • Association Between Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist and Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor Use and COVID-19 Outcomes, 2021, Diabetes Care

Frequent co-authors include Jennifer L. Lund, John B. Buse, Virginia Pate, Michele Jönsson Funk, and M. Alan Brookhart. These collaborations indicate an active engagement in multi-author, interdisciplinary research projects.

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as UNC Libraries, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, Diabetes Care, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Journal of Clinical Oncology. This range of publication venues reflects the cross-disciplinary nature of their work and focus areas within clinical and epidemiological research.

Best Publications

  • Variable Selection for Propensity Score Models

    M. Alan Brookhart;Sebastian Schneeweiss;Kenneth J. Rothman;Kenneth J. Rothman;Robert J. Glynn

  • Doubly Robust Estimation of Causal Effects

    Michele Jonsson Funk;Daniel Westreich;Chris Wiesen;Til Stürmer

  • Indications for Propensity Scores and Review of their Use in Pharmacoepidemiology

    Robert J. Glynn;Sebastian Schneeweiss;Til Stürmer

  • A review of the application of propensity score methods yielded increasing use, advantages in specific settings, but not substantially different estimates compared with conventional multivariable methods.

    Til Stürmer;Manisha Joshi;Robert J. Glynn;Jerry Avorn

  • Propensity Score Methods for Confounding Control in Nonexperimental Research

    M. Alan Brookhart;Richard Wyss;J. Bradley Layton;Til Stürmer

  • The active comparator, new user study design in pharmacoepidemiology: historical foundations and contemporary application.

    Jennifer L. Lund;David B. Richardson;Til Stürmer

  • Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Proton Therapy, or Conformal Radiation Therapy and Morbidity and Disease Control in Localized Prostate Cancer

    Nathan C. Sheets;Gregg H. Goldin;Anne-Marie Meyer;Yang Wu

  • Obesity, overweight and patterns of osteoarthritis: The Ulm Osteoarthritis Study

    Til Stürmer;Klaus Peter Günther;Hermann Brenner

  • Association Between the Choice of IV Crystalloid and In-Hospital Mortality Among Critically Ill Adults With Sepsis

    Karthik Raghunathan;Andrew Shaw;Brian Nathanson;Til Stürmer

  • Confounding control in healthcare database research: challenges and potential approaches

    M. Alan Brookhart;Til Stürmer;Robert J. Glynn;Robert J. Glynn;Jeremy Rassen;Jeremy Rassen

  • Treatment Effects in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding: Dealing With Observations in the Tails of the Propensity Score Distribution—A Simulation Study

    Til Stürmer;Kenneth J. Rothman;Kenneth J. Rothman;Jerry Avorn;Robert J. Glynn

  • Aspirin Use and Colorectal Cancer: Post-Trial Follow-up Data from the Physicians' Health Study

    Til Sturmer;Robert J. Glynn;I-Min Lee;JoAnn E. Manson

  • Association Between Choice of Radical Prostatectomy, External Beam Radiotherapy, Brachytherapy, or Active Surveillance and Patient-Reported Quality of Life Among Men With Localized Prostate Cancer

    Ronald C. Chen;Ramsankar Basak;Anne Marie Meyer;Tzy Mey Kuo

  • Patient delay and stage of diagnosis among breast cancer patients in Germany – a population based study

    V. Arndt;T. Stürmer;C. Stegmaier;H. Ziegler

  • Propensity scores for confounder adjustment when assessing the effects of medical interventions using nonexperimental study designs

    Til Stürmer;R. Wyss;Robert J. Glynn;M. A. Brookhart

  • Effect of Adjuvant Chemotherapy on Survival of Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer Diagnosed After Age 75 Years

    Hanna K. Sanoff;William R. Carpenter;Til Stürmer;Richard M. Goldberg

  • Adjusting Effect Estimates for Unmeasured Confounding with Validation Data using Propensity Score Calibration

    Til Stürmer;Sebastian Schneeweiss;Jerry Avorn;Robert J. Glynn

  • Increasing levels of restriction in pharmacoepidemiologic database studies of elderly and comparison with randomized trial results.

    Sebastian Schneeweiss;Amanda R. Patrick;Til Stürmer;M. Alan Brookhart

  • Severity and extent of osteoarthritis and low grade systemic inflammation as assessed by high sensitivity C reactive protein

    T. Stürmer;H. Brenner;W. Koenig;K. P. Günther

  • Cost-effectiveness of Colonoscopy in Screening for Colorectal Cancer

    Hermann Brenner;Volker Arndt;Til Stürmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Glynn
Robert J. Glynn Harvard Medical School
Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center
M. Alan Brookhart
M. Alan Brookhart University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth J. Rothman
Kenneth J. Rothman Boston University
John B. Buse
John B. Buse University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sebastian Schneeweiss
Sebastian Schneeweiss Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jerry Avorn
Jerry Avorn Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Bradley N. Gaynes
Bradley N. Gaynes University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stacie B. Dusetzina
Stacie B. Dusetzina Vanderbilt University

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