Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1073888 | Gaceta Sanitaria | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Two issues are often overlooked when performing survival analyses: firstly, because of the lack of independence between survival time and censoring time, the results obtained by the Kaplan-Meier estimator are uninterpretable; secondly, it is an incontrovertible fact that one way or another, everyone causes failures. In this approach, survival analyses must take into account the probability of failure in the general population of reference. The results obtained in this study show that superficial use of the Kaplan Meier estimator overestimates both the probability of recurrence and that of mortality caused by the disease.
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Authors
Pablo MartÃnez-Camblor, Nerea Larrañaga, Cristina Sarasqueta, MarÃa José Mitxelena, Mikel Basterretxea,