title: A guide to survival analysis for manual therapy clinicians and researchers.
abstract: Survival analysis is a statistical approach used to study time to an event of interest. The approach is highly applicable to the manual therapy discipline, yet is rarely used. This masterclass aims to present a simple overview of survival analysis aimed at both clinicians and researchers in the manual therapy field. Specifically the masterclass aims to 1) describe situations where survival analysis is appropriate to use 2) describe unique characteristics of survival data including censoring of participants 3) describe analysis methods for survival data including log rank test and Cox regression 4) describe the interpretation of results from survival analyses including survival plots and hazard ratios.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, 75 Talavera Rd, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia. Electronic address: mark.hancock@mq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hancock
authors.affiliation: The George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Christopher G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Maher
authors.affiliation: Master's and Doctoral Programs in Physical Therapy, Universidade Cidade São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lucíola da Cunha Menezes
authors.initials: Lda C
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: The George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D026201:Musculoskeletal Manipulations; D016019:Survival Analysis
keywords: Manual therapy; Survival analysis