Competing events influence estimated survival probability: When is Kaplan-Meier analysis appropriate?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 462, Issue , 2007, Pages 229-233

  Biau, David Jean ^a   Latouche, Aurélien ^a   Porcher, Raphaël ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

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Indexed keywords

FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP DISLOCATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIMB SALVAGE; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK; INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGERY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; BONE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR NECK; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34548389774     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e3180986753     Document Type: Review

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