OBJECTIVES: We provide a case-cohort approach and show that a full competing risk analysis is feasible even in a reduced data set. Competing events for hospital-acquired infections are death or discharge from the hospital ...
Wolkewitz, M.; Cooper, Ben S.; Palomar Martínez, Mercedes; Álvarez Lerma, Francisco; Olaechea-Astigarraga, P.; Barnett, Adrian G.; Schumacher, Martin(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: When patients are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) their risk of getting an infection will be highly depend on the length of stay at-risk in the ICU. In addition, risk of infection is likely to vary ...
