title: Survival analysis in clinical trials: Basics and must know areas.
abstract: Many clinical trials involve following patients for a long time. The primary event of interest in those studies is death, relapse, adverse drug reaction or development of a new disease. The follow-up time for the study may range from few weeks to many years. A different set of statistical procedures are employed to analyze the data, which involves time to event an analysis. It is a very useful tool in clinical research and provides invaluable information about an intervention. This article introduces the researcher to the different tools of survival analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and JNM Hospital, Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Ritesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Keshab
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay