conclusions while high serum pth, calcium, and phosphorus levels could determine the mortality risk in hemodialysis patients, decreased serum phosphorus and pth levels were in association with malnutrition and comorbidities and were not independent risk factors for mortality. background abnormal mineral metabolism is common among hemodialysis patients and has been associated with higher morbidi...

In this paper, we develop a Bayesian approach to estimate a Cox proportional hazards model that allows a threshold in the regression coefficient, when some fraction of subjects are not susceptible to the event of interest. A data augmentation scheme with latent binary cure indicators is adopted to simplify the Markov chain Monte Carlo implementation. Given the binary cure indicators, the Cox cu...

In contrast to prior studies (Table 1), Wolters and colleagues [1] reported no significant association between delirium and 1-year survival among Dutch ICU survivors. The authors attributed this finding to a novel adjustment of their Cox survival model for the sum of patients’ Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores (obtained three times daily). Hence, we wish to enquire about the res...

There are three broad classes of models used to address the econometric problems caused by skewness in data commonly encountered in health care applications: (1) transformation to deal with skewness (e.g., OLS on ln(y)); (2) alternative weighting approaches based on exponential conditional models (ECM) and generalized linear model (GLM) approaches; and (3) survival models (Cox proportional haza...

We describe a new approach to estimating relative risks in time-to-event prediction problems with censored data fully parametric manner. Our does not require making strong assumptions of constant proportional hazards the underlying survival distribution, as required by Cox-proportional hazard model. By jointly learning deep nonlinear representations input covariates, we demonstrate benefits our...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of metformin use on the survival of inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with diabetes using the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In total, 7,620 patients were eligible in this study, among them, 3,578 patients were metformin users and 4,042 were non-users. Propensity score matching was used ...

background: the aim of this study is to evaluate the association between different treatments and survival time of breast cancer patients using either standard cox model or stratified cox model. methods: the study was conducted on 15830 women diagnosed with breast cancer in british columbia, canada.  they were divided into eight groups according to patients’ ages and stage of disease either cox...