A note on the calculation of expected survival, illustrated by the survival of liver transplant patients.
Based on historical regression analyses of survival one may calculate expected survival curves for patients in a study group, based on their observed covariates. This note discusses this calculation and illustrates it on a comparison of the survival of a certain group of liver transplant patients to their prognosis under conservative treatment.
Thomsen
B L
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Statistical Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Keiding
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Altman
D G
DG
D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000401:mortality; D012044:Regression Analysis; D016019:Survival Analysis