Bias due to censoring of deaths when calculating extra length of stay for patients acquiring a hospital infection

BACKGROUND: In many studies the information of patients who are dying in the hospital is censored when examining the change in length of hospital stay (cLOS) due to hospital-acquired infections (HIs). While appropriate estimators of cLOS are available in literature, the existence of the bias due to...

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Autores principales: Rahman, Shahina, von Cube, Maja, Schumacher, Martin, Wolkewitz, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5975458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29843610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0500-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5975458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29843610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0500-3

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