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From: Multilevel competing risks in the evaluation of nosocomial infections: time to move on from proportional hazards and even from hazards altogether

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Parametric and non-parametric estimates of the cumulative percentages of ventilated patients who either achieved unassisted breathing or died after randomization in the fluid management trial. Estimates are stratified by study group (A) and ratios of conservative to liberal strategies of cause-specific hazards (B) and sub-hazards (C) of unassisted breathing. In all of these models, death before unassisted breathing is the competing risk. For panel (A) (Adapted with permission from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health: Epidemiology[17], copyright 2010), parametric estimates are represented with continuous lines and non-parametric estimates are represented with steps. The continuous lines give evidence to the goodness-of-fit of mixtures of generalized gamma distributions for the timing of the two events in both treatment groups.

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