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Importance of Considering Competing Risks in Time-to-Event Analyses: Application to Stroke Risk in a Retrospective Cohort Study of Elderly Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

BACKGROUND: Ignoring competing risks in time-to-event analyses can lead to biased risk estimates, particularly for elderly patients with multimorbidity. We aimed to demonstrate the impact of considering competing risks when estimating the cumulative incidence and risk of stroke among elderly atrial...

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Autores principales: Abdel-Qadir, Husam, Fang, Jiming, Lee, Douglas S., Tu, Jack V., Amir, Eitan, Austin, Peter C., Anderson, Geoffrey M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7665273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29997149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.004580