Methods of competing risks analysis of end-stage renal disease and mortality among people with diabetes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>When a patient experiences an event other than the one of interest in the study, usually the probability of experiencing the event of interest is altered. By contrast, disease-free survival time analysis by standard methods, such as...

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Main Authors: Dyck Roland, Zhang Xu, Lim Hyun J, Osgood Nathaniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/10/97