Modeling the effect of time-dependent exposure on intensive care unit mortality

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 826-832

  Wolkewitz, Martin ^a,b   Beyersmann, Jan ^a,b   Gastmeier, Petra ^c   Schumacher, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Event specific hazard; Nosocomial infections; Population attributable fraction; Subdistribution hazard

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; EXPOSURE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY;

EID: 67349246509     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1423-6     Document Type: Article

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