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Multilevel competing risks in the evaluation of nosocomial infections: time to move on from proportional hazards and even from hazards altogether

A competing risk is an event (for example, death in the ICU) that hinders the occurrence of an event of interest (for example, nosocomial infection in the ICU) and it is a common issue in many critical care studies. Not accounting for a competing event may affect how results related to a primary eve...

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Autores principales: Muñoz, Alvaro, Mongilardi, Nicole, Checkley, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25042281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc13892