2 papers
stat.AP2024
Strategy to control biases in prior event rate ratio method, with application to palliative care in patients with advanced cancer
Xiangmei Ma, Grace Meijuan Yang, Qingyuan Zhuang +1
Objectives: Prior event rate ratio (PERR) is a method shown to perform well in mitigating confounding in real-world evidence research but it depends on several model assumptions. W…
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…