Practical recommendations for reportingFine‐Gray model analyses for competing risk data

Statistics in Medicine - Tập 36 Số 27 - Trang 4391-4400 - 2017
Peter C. Austin1,2,3, Jason P. Fine4,5
1Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA
5Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

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In survival analysis, a competing risk is an event whose occurrence precludes the occurrence of the primary event of interest. Outcomes in medical research are frequently subject to competing risks. In survival analysis, there are 2 key questions that can be addressed using competing risk regression models: first, which covariates affect the rate at which events occur, and second, which covariates affect the probability of an event occurring over time. The cause‐specific hazard model estimates the effect of covariates on the rate at which events occur in subjects who are currently event‐free. Subdistribution hazard ratios obtained from the Fine‐Gray model describe the relative effect of covariates on the subdistribution hazard function. Hence, the covariates in this model can also be interpreted as having an effect on the cumulative incidence function or on the probability of events occurring over time. We conducted a review of the use and interpretation of the Fine‐Gray subdistribution hazard model in articles published in the medical literature in 2015. We found that many authors provided an unclear or incorrect interpretation of the regression coefficients associated with this model. An incorrect and inconsistent interpretation of regression coefficients may lead to confusion when comparing results across different studies. Furthermore, an incorrect interpretation of estimated regression coefficients can result in an incorrect understanding about the magnitude of the association between exposure and the incidence of the outcome. The objective of this article is to clarify how these regression coefficients should be reported and to propose suggestions for interpreting these coefficients.

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Statistics in Medicine

Tập 36 Số 27

4391-4400

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