Use of predicted vital status to improve survival analysis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cohorts

Use of predicted vital status to improve survival analysis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cohorts

Abstract Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cohorts often lack long-term survival data, and are summarized instead by initial treatment outcomes. When using Cox proportional hazards models to analyze these cohorts, this leads to censoring subjects at the time of the initial treatme...

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Main Authors: Meredith B. Brooks, Salmaan Keshavjee, Irina Gelmanova, Nataliya A. Zemlyanaya, Carole D. Mitnick, Justin Manjourides
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Prediction models
Cox proportional hazards
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-018-0637-0

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