Interpreting and comparing risks in the presence of competing events

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wolkewitz, Martin ^a   Cooper, Ben S ^b,c   Bonten, Marc J M ^d   Barnett, Adrian G ^e   Schumacher, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETING EVENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CUMULATIVE RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; HAZARD RATIO; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OVERALL RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907305181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g5060     Document Type: Article

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