Competing risks analysis of time-to-event data for cardiovascular surgeons

摘要

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to provide thoracic and cardiovascular surgeons with a practical step-by-step strategy to use in collaboration with a biostatistician for implementation of competing risks analysis when analyzing time-to-event data. Patients may have an outside event that precludes the event of interest. Traditional time-to-event analysis incorrectly assumes noninformative censoring in this scenario, which will lead to invalid results and conclusions.