title: Measurement Error Case Series Models with Application to Infection-Cardiovascular Risk in OlderPatients on Dialysis.
abstract: Infection and cardiovascular disease are leading causes of hospitalization and death in older patients on dialysis. Our recent work found an increase in the relative incidence of cardiovascular outcomes during the ~ 30 days after infection-related hospitalizations using the case series model, which adjusts for measured and unmeasured baseline confounders. However, a major challenge in modeling/assessing the infection-cardiovascular risk hypothesis is that the exact time of infection, or more generally "exposure," onsets cannot be ascertained based on hospitalization data. Only imprecise markers of the timing of infection onsets are available. Although there is a large literature on measurement error in the predictors in regression modeling, to date there is no work on measurement error on the timing of a time-varying exposure to our knowledge. Thus, we propose a new method, the measurement error case series (MECS) models, to account for measurement error in time-varying exposure onsets. We characterized the general nature of bias resulting from estimation that ignores measurement error and proposed a bias-corrected estimation for the MECS models. We examined in detail the accuracy of the proposed method to estimate the relative incidence. Hospitalization data from United States Renal Data System, which captures nearly all (> 99%) patients with end-stage renal disease in the U.S. over time, is used to illustrate the proposed method. The results suggest that the estimate of the cardiovascular incidence following the 30 days after infections, a period where acute effects of infection on vascular endothelium may be most pronounced, is substantially attenuated in the presence of infection onset measurement error.
authors: Sandra M. Mohammed is Ph.D. Student, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Davis. Damla Şentürk is Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Lorien S. Dalrymple is Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Sacramento, CA 95691. Danh V. Nguyen ( ucdnguyen@ucdavis.edu ) is Professor, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
authors: Sandra M
authors: SM
authors: Mohammed
authors: Damla
authors: D
authors: Sentürk
authors: Lorien S
authors: LS
authors: Dalrymple
authors: Danh V
authors: DV
authors: Nguyen
keywords: Cardiovascular outcomes; Case series models; End stage renal disease; Infection; Measurement error; Non-homogeneous Poisson process; Time-varying exposure onset; United States Renal Data System
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