IPDfromKM: reconstruct individual patient data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves

Abstract Background When applying secondary analysis on published survival data, it is critical to obtain each patient’s raw data, because the individual patient data (IPD) approach has been considered as the gold standard of data analysis. However, researchers often lack access to IPD. We aim to pr...

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Main Authors: Na Liu, Yanhong Zhou, J. Jack Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01308-8