Joint modeling of longitudinal and competing risks for assessing blood oxygen saturation and its association with survival outcomes in COVID-19 patients

• Main Authors: Zahra Geraili (Author), Karimollah HajianTilaki (Author), Masomeh Bayani (Author), Seyed R. Hosseini (Author), Soraya Khafri (Author), Soheil Ebrahimpour (Author), Mostafa Javanian (Author), Arefeh Babazadeh (Author), Mehran Shokri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: The objective of the present study is to evaluate the association between longitudinal and survival outcomes in the presence of competing risk events. To illustrate the application of joint modeling in clinical research, we assessed the blood oxygen saturation (SPO2) and its association...