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An application of restricted mean survival time in a competing risks setting: comparing time to ART initiation by injection drug use

BACKGROUND: Restricted mean survival time (RMST) is an underutilized estimand in time-to-event analyses. Herein, we highlight its strengths by comparing time to (1) all-cause mortality and (2) initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected persons who inject drugs (PWID) and persons who...

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Autores principales: Calkins, Keri L., Canan, Chelsea E., Moore, Richard D., Lesko, Catherine R., Lau, Bryan
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/PMC5845164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29523081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0484-z