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Interpretation of nonfatal events after cardiac surgery: Actual versus actuarial reporting

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 122; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1067/mtc.2001.117535

1097-685X

Gary L. Grunkemeier, YingXing Wu,

Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management

To describe the cumulative incidence (actual) method of analysis and to contrast it with the Kaplan-Meier method.We use data on porcine valve replacement to illustrate these two statistical techniques.The "actual" analysis estimates the percentage of events expected to occur. The percentage given by the Kaplan-Meier method is much larger.Actual (cumulative incidence) analysis is preferred for estimating the probability of occurrence of a nonfatal time-related event.