Competing risk of death: An important consideration in studies of older adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 783-787

  Berry, Sarah D ^a,b   Ngo, Long ^c   Samelson, Elizabeth J ^a,b   Kiel, Douglas P ^a,b  

^a Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^b Divisions of Gerontology ^*  (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risk; Competing risk regression

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC DISORDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77950438899     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02767.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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