Modelling competing risks in nephrology research: an example in peritoneal dialysis

BACKGROUND: Modelling competing risks is an essential issue in Nephrology Research. In peritoneal dialysis studies, sometimes inappropriate methods (i.e. Kaplan-Meier method) have been used to estimate probabilities for an event of interest in the presence of competing risks. In this situation a com...

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Main Author: Teixeira, L. (author)
Other Authors: Rodrigues, A. (author), Carvalho, M. (author), Cabrita, A. (author), Mendonça, D. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Cause-specific hazard model
Competing risks
Cumulative incidence function
Peritoneal dialysis
Subdistribution hazard model
Survival analysis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/1550
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.chporto.pt:10400.16/1550

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/1550

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