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A Competing Risk Analysis for Hospital Length of Stay in Patients With Burns
Author(s) -
Sandra L. Taylor,
Soman Sen,
David G. Greenhalgh,
MaryBeth Lawless,
Terese Curri,
Tina L. Palmieri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.3490
Subject(s) - medicine , total body surface area , burn injury , body surface area , hazard ratio , emergency medicine , retrospective cohort study , inhalation , injury prevention , poison control , surgery , anesthesia , confidence interval
Current outcome predictors for illness and injury are measured at a single time point-admission. However, patient prognosis often changes during hospitalization, limiting the usefulness of those predictions. Accurate depiction of the dynamic interaction between competing events during hospitalization may enable real-time outcome assessment.

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