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Importance of competing risks in the analysis of anti-epileptic drug failure

BACKGROUND: Retention time (time to treatment failure) is a commonly used outcome in antiepileptic drug (AED) studies. METHODS: Two datasets are used to demonstrate the issues in a competing risks analysis of AEDs. First, data collection and follow-up considerations are discussed with reference to i...

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Autores principales: Williamson, Paula R, Smith, Catrin Tudur, Sander, Josemir W, Marson, Anthony G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1853111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17394663
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-8-12