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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Informative Censoring-A Cause of Bias in Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Using Hospital Data.

Hung-Mo Lin, Sean T H Liu, Matthew A Levin, John Williamson, Nicole M Bouvier, Judith A Aberg, David Reich, Natalia Egorova

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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8 authors.

Hung-Mo LinDepartment of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Sean T H LiuDivision of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Matthew A LevinDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6013-2684
John WilliamsonDivision of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Nicole M BouvierDivision of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Judith A AbergDivision of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8162-0284
David ReichDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Natalia EgorovaDepartment of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Several retrospective observational analyzed treatment outcomes for COVID-19; (2) Methods: Inverse probability of censoring weighting (IPCW) was applied to correct for bias due to informative censoring in database of hospitalized patients who did and did not receive convalescent plasma; (3) Results: When compared with an IPCW analysis, overall mortality was overestimated using an unadjusted Kaplan-Meier curve, and hazard ratios for the older age group compared to the youngest were underestimated using the Cox proportional hazard models and 30-day mortality; (4) Conclusions: An IPCW analysis provided stabilizing weights by hospital admission.

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censoringconvalescent plasmaCOVID-19

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PMCPMC9865049

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