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Publication Information

PubMed ID
Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2015
Affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.
Authors
Argyropoulos C, Unruh ML
Studies
Citation
Argyropoulos C, Unruh ML. Analysis of time to event outcomes in randomized controlled trials by generalized additive models. PLoS One 2015 Apr 23;10(4):e0123784. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123784. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Randomized Controlled Trials almost invariably utilize the hazard ratio calculated with a Cox proportional hazard model as a treatment efficacy measure. Despite the widespread adoption of HRs, these provide a limited understanding of the treatment effect and may even provide a biased estimate when the assumption of proportional hazards in the Cox model is not verified by the trial data. Additional treatment effect measures on the survival probability or the time scale may be used to supplement HRs but a framework for the simultaneous generation of these measures is lacking.