Bias due to censoring of deaths when calculating extra length of stay for patients acquiring a hospital infection

Bias due to censoring of deaths when calculating extra length of stay for patients acquiring a hospital infection

Abstract Background In many studies the information of patients who are dying in the hospital is censored when examining the change in length of hospital stay (cLOS) due to hospital-acquired infections (HIs). While appropriate estimators of cLOS are available in literature, the existence of the bias...

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Main Authors: Shahina Rahman, Maja von Cube, Martin Schumacher, Martin Wolkewitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Bias
Censored deaths
Extra length of stay
Hospital acquired infection
Multistate model
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-018-0500-3

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