Survival bias associated with time-to-treatment initiation in drug effectiveness evaluation: a comparison of methods
Zhou Z;Rahme E;Abrahamowicz M;Pilote L;;
american journal of epidemiology2005Vol. 162pp. -
248
z2005americansurvival
Abstract
The authors compared five methods of studying survival bias associated with time-to-treatment initiation in a drug effectiveness study using medical administrative databases (1996-2002) from Quebec, Canada. The first two methods illustrated how survival bias could be introduced. Three additional met …