Bias due to censoring of deaths when calculating extra length of stay for patients acquiring a hospital infection
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DOI: 10.1186/s12874-018-0500-3
Abstract: BackgroundIn many studies the information of patients who are dying in the hospital is censored when examining the change in length of hospital stay (cLOS) due to hospital-acquired infections (HIs). While appropriate estimators of cLOS… read more here.
Keywords: censoring deaths; length; bias due; due censoring ... See more keywords