2 papers
stat.ME2025
Bias reduction method for prior event rate ratio, with application to emergency department visit rates in patients with advanced cancer
Xiangmei Ma, Chetna Malhotra, Eric Andrew Finkelstein +1
Objectives: Prior event rate ratio (PERR) is a promising approach to control confounding in observational and real-world evidence research. One of its assumptions is that occurrenc…
stat.ME2024
Reverse time-to-death as time-scale in time-to-event analysis for studies of advanced illness and palliative care
Yin Bun Cheung, Xiangmei Ma, Isha Chaudhry +5
Background: Incidence of adverse outcome events rises as patients with advanced illness approach end-of-life. Exposures that tend to occur near end-of-life, e.g., use of wheelchair…