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Competing Risk Analysis: What Does It Mean and When Do We Need It in Orthopedics Research?
Hilal Maradit Kremers1, Katrina L Devick2, Dirk R Larson3
1Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Abstract:
Most orthopedic studies involve survival analysis examining the time to an event of interest, such as a specific complication or revision surgery. Competing risks commonly arise in such studies when patients are at risk of more than one mutually exclusive event, such as death, or when the rate of an event depends on the rates of other competing events. In this article, we briefly describe the survival analysis censoring methodology, common fatal and nonfatal competing events, and define circumstances where standard survival analysis can fail in the setting of competing risks with real-world examples from orthopedics. Please visit the followinghttps://youtu.be/ifj_Mm3eGu8for a video that explains the highlights of the paper in practical terms.
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