Title |
Multilevel competing risk models to evaluate the risk of nosocomial infection
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Published in |
Critical Care, April 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/cc13821 |
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Authors |
Martin Wolkewitz, Ben S Cooper, Mercedes Palomar-Martinez, Francisco Alvarez-Lerma, Pedro Olaechea-Astigarraga, Adrian G Barnett, Stephan Harbarth, Martin Schumacher |
Abstract |
Risk factor analyses for nosocomial infections (NIs) are complex. First, due to competing events for NI, the association between risk factors of NI as measured using hazard rates may not coincide with the association using cumulative probability (risk). Second, patients from the same intensive care unit (ICU) who share the same environmental exposure are likely to be more similar with regard to risk factors predisposing to a NI than patients from different ICUs. We aimed to develop an analytical approach to account for both features and to use it to evaluate associations between patient- and ICU-level characteristics with both rates of NI and competing risks and with the cumulative probability of infection. |
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