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A Flexible Alternative to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Assessing the Prognostic Accuracy of Hospice Patient Survival

Prognostic models are often used to estimate the length of patient survival. The Cox proportional hazards model has traditionally been applied to assess the accuracy of prognostic models. However, it may be suboptimal due to the inflexibility to model the baseline survival function and when the prop...

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Autores principales: Miladinovic, Branko, Kumar, Ambuj, Mhaskar, Rahul, Kim, Sehwan, Schonwetter, Ronald, Djulbegovic, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23082220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047804