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SUBMITTER: Edwards JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5557056 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current epidemiology reports 20160913 4
Risk is an important parameter to describe the occurrence of health outcomes over time. However, many outcomes of interest in healthcare settings, such as disease incidence, treatment initiation, and cause-specific mortality, may be precluded from occurring by other events, often referred to as competing events. Here, we review straightforward approaches to estimate risk in the presence of competing events. We illustrate the application of these methods using timely examples in pharmacoepidemiol ...[more]