Abstract
Most studies that involve following patient outcomes for long periods of time are subject to loss of patients to follow-up. To account for such loss while gleaning the maximal amount of information from the data available requires special techniques.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 825-826 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Censorship
- Cox proportional hazards regression
- Hazard ratio
- Kaplan-Meier estimates
- Loss to follow-up
- Statistical test
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Surgery
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine