Introducción al análisis de los datos de supervivencia en presencia de riesgos concurrentes

Peter C Austin1, Douglas S Lee2, Jason P Fine2

  • 1From Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P.C.A., D.S.L.); Institute of Health Management, Policy and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P.C.A., D.S.L.); Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P.C.A.); Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (D.S.L.); Peter Munk Cardiac Center, Department of Medicine, and the Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (D.S.L.); Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (J.P.F.); and Department of Statistics & Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (J.P.F.). peter.austin@ices.on.ca.

Circulation
|February 10, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

En el análisis de la supervivencia, los riesgos concurrentes son comunes. Utilice la función de incidencia acumulada, no el método Kaplan-Meier, para obtener estimaciones precisas de la incidencia de los resultados en presencia de riesgos concurrentes.

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