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Advantages of a multi-state approach in surgical research: how intermediate events and risk factor profile affect the prognosis of a patient with locally advanced rectal cancer

BACKGROUND: Standard survival analysis fails to give insight into what happens to a patient after a first outcome event (like first relapse of a disease). Multi-state models are a useful tool for analyzing survival data when different treatments and results (intermediate events) can occur. Aim of th...

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Autores principales: Manzini, G., Ettrich, T. J., Kremer, M., Kornmann, M., Henne-Bruns, D., Eikema, D. A., Schlattmann, P., de Wreede, L. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5811976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29439652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0476-z