@article{fb0ea85f7f294da8b5a51ac0068430d6,
title = "Competing Risk Analysis: What Does It Mean and When Do We Need It in Orthopedics Research?",
abstract = "Most orthopedic studies involve survival analysis examining the time to an event of interest, such as a specific complication or revision surgery. Competing risks commonly arise in such studies when patients are at risk of more than one mutually exclusive event, such as death, or when the rate of an event depends on the rates of other competing events. In this article, we briefly describe the survival analysis censoring methodology, common fatal and nonfatal competing events, and define circumstances where standard survival analysis can fail in the setting of competing risks with real-world examples from orthopedics.",
keywords = "bias, censoring, competing risk, survival analysis, total joint arthroplasty",
author = "{Maradit Kremers}, Hilal and Devick, {Katrina L.} and Larson, {Dirk R.} and Lewallen, {David G.} and Berry, {Daniel J.} and Crowson, {Cynthia S.}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding: This work was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) grant P30AR76312 and the American Joint Replacement Research-Collaborative (AJRR-C)https://ajrrc.org/. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Funding Information: Funding: This work was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) grant P30AR76312 and the American Joint Replacement Research-Collaborative (AJRR-C) https://ajrrc.org/ . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1016/j.arth.2021.04.015",
language = "English (US)",
journal = "Journal of Arthroplasty",
issn = "0883-5403",
publisher = "Churchill Livingstone",
}