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Loss to Follow-Up as a Competing Risk in an Observational Study of HIV-1 Incidence

OBJECTIVE: Conventional survival estimates may be biased if loss to follow-up (LTF) is associated with the outcome of interest. Our goal was to assess whether the association between sexual risk behavior and HIV-1 acquisition changed after accounting for LTF with competing risks regression. METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Graham, Susan M., Raboud, Janet, McClelland, R. Scott, Jaoko, Walter, Ndinya-Achola, Jeckoniah, Mandaliya, Kishor, Overbaugh, Julie, Bayoumi, Ahmed M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3595247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23555041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059480