Introduction to the Analysis of Survival Data in the Presence of Competing Risks

Circulation

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 601-609

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b,c   Lee, Douglas S ^a,b,d,e   Fine, Jason P ^f,g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^f IL   (United States)

^g University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

cumulative incidence function; data interpretation, statistical; incidence; models, statistical; proportional hazards models; risk assessment; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM; UREA;

AGE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEMENTIA; HEART DEATH; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84957837271     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.017719     Document Type: Article

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