Joint modeling quality of life and survival using a terminal decline model in palliative care studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1394-1406

  Li, Zhigang ^a   Tosteson, Tor D ^a,b   Bakitas, Marie A ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life; Joint modeling; Palliative care; Quality of life; Survival; Terminal decline

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875264498     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5635     Document Type: Article

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