Open AccessCensoring for Loss to Follow-up in Time-to-event Analyses of Composite Outcomes or in the Presence of Competing Risks
Author(s) -
Catherine R. Lesko,
Jessie K. Edwards,
Richard D. Moore,
Bryan Lau
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000001073
Subject(s) - censoring (clinical trials) , medicine , survival analysis , demography , statistics , mathematics , pathology , sociology
In time-to-event analyses, there is limited guidance on when persons who are lost to follow-up (LTFU) should be censored.