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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Kaplan-Meier method"”.
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The prognosis of tuberculosis in adults infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1)
… to the two HIV clinics between 1992 and 1996. Methods: The TB case definition was a positive culture or a compatible clinical picture combined with a positive smear or a histologic diagnosis. TB patients were treated with 6-month short course regimens. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to …
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Prognostické a prediktivní markery v léčbě karcinomu pankreatu
… characteristics of these patients. Patients and Methods: Patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer undergoing first-line chemotherapy at our institution were included in the study. Baseline clinicopathological and pretreatment baseline parameters (inflammation-based parameters, CTCs) were …
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Outcomes of infants starting Antiretroviral therapy in Southern Africa
… to identify the determinants for these outcomes. Method: A retrospective analysis was performed of prospectively collected cohort data of infants that initiated ART in routine care settings at the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS in Southern Africa (IeDEA-SA) collaborative …
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Body mass index and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in Korean breast cancer
… remission, survival and BMI. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study is a retrospective study through chart review who received NAC at the Ajou University Hospital from 2001 to 2013. Total 217 patients were enrolled, of which 170 patients who performed MRI scan before chemotherapy were analyzed. …
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Performance Analysis of an Urban Stormwater Best Management Practice Retrofit
… from stormwater runoff. Two mass-based methods were utilized for the performance analysis: the Summation of Loads Method and Effluent Probability Method. The Kaplan-Meier method and Robust Regression on ordered statistics (ROS) were used to make it possible to include censored datasets …
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Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Inhibitors Among HIV seropositive Adults on Protease Inhibitors Containing Antiretroviral Therapy at Adult Infectious Disease Centre at the University Teaching Hospital
… University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Zambia. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study that reviewed records of patients on PIs and non- PIs between 2008 and 2016. The primary end point of the study was CVD and consisted of a total sample of 281, with PI consisting of 112 and 169 for the …
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Clinicopathological and molecular characterization of gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma before age of 40 years
… as appropriate. Survival was estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method with univariate analysis by the log-rank. Significance was taken at the 5% level. There was no difference in the surgical technique applied in both age groups and most patients underwent Ivor Lewis esophagectomy. Among clinical …
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Patterns of care and outcomes for women with locally advanced cervical cancer, treated with curative intent, between 2013-2017 at a tertiary centre in South Africa
… a tertiary center in South Africa. Materials and Methods This is a retrospective study conducted at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) in Cape Town, South Africa between July 2013 – July 2017. Overall survival (OS) and disease free survival (DFS) were evaluated using the Kaplan–Meier method. Factors …
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C - Reactive Protein, Coronary Heart Disease and Ischemic Stroke in the Elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study
… race on the incidence of CHD or ischemic stroke.Methods: Baseline CRP levels were measured in a cohort of 57 13 participants 265 years of age from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) using a high-sensitivity assay. The cohort included 3859 (68%) subjects free of cardiovascular disease and 1104 …
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Perfil clínico, epidemiológico e sobrevida dos transplantados com células-tronco hematopoéticas
… free software R version 3.0.0 was used and the Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate survival probabilities using the Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0. The trend chi-square test was used to calculate the probability of association between the characteristics analyzed …
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Analysis of clustered competing risks with application to a multicentre clinical trial
… in statistically modelling research. The methodological developments of time-to-event analysis that have been widely adopted are: (i) The Kaplan-Meier method, for estimating the survival function; (ii) The log-rank test, for comparing the equality of two or more survival distributions; (m) …
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Técnicas de análise de sobrevivência para sujeitos infetados com HIV
… survival no qual foram utilizados os métodos de Kaplan-Meier e Cox. O teste logrank foi aplicado para comparação de curvas de sobrevivência estimadas pelo método de Kaplan-Meier em diferentes grupos das covariáveis categóricas, sendo que foi estimado o tempo de vida mediano em cada um desses …