Multilevel competing risk models to evaluate the risk of nosocomial infection

• Main Authors: Martin Wolkewitz, Ben S. Cooper, Mercedes Palomar-Martinez, Francisco Alvarez-Lerma, Pedro Olaechea-Astigarraga, Adrian G. Barnett, Stephan Harbarth, Martin Schumacher
• Other Authors: Universitats Klinikum Freiburg und Medizinische Fakultat
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/34252
• Institution: Mahidol University

Introduction: 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 i...