Competing risk events in antimalarial drug trials in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network individual participant data meta-analysis
Abstract Background Therapeutic efficacy studies in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria are confounded by new infections, which constitute competing risk events since they can potentially preclude/pre-empt the detection of subsequent recrudescence of persistent, sub-microscopic primary infec...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-07-01
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Series: | Malaria Journal |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-019-2837-4 |