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Life expectancy difference and life expectancy ratio: two measures of treatment effects in randomised trials with non-proportional hazards

The hazard ratio (HR) is the most common measure of treatment effect in clinical trials that use time-to-event outcomes such as survival. When survival curves cross over or separate only after a considerable time, the proportional hazards assumption of the Cox model is violated, and HR can be mislea...

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Autores principales: Dehbi, Hakim-Moulay, Royston, Patrick, Hackshaw, Allan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5444092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28546261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j2250