Importance Board certification is used as a marker of surgeon quality and professionalism.
Although some research has linked certification in surgery to outcomes, more research is …

Survival and event history analysis have developed into one of the major areas of
biostatistics, with important applications in other fields as well, including reliability theory …

Study design: We analyzed longitudinal data on secondary outcomes from participants in a
telerehabilitation study. Objectives: To examine the factors affecting return to productive …

Background: Increased exposure to endogenous estrogen and/or insulin may partly explain
the relationship of obesity, physical inactivity, and alcohol consumption and …

Introduction With increasing interest in income-related differences in cancer outcomes,
accurate measurement of income is imperative. Misclassification of income can result in …

Background Cancer is replacing cardiovascular-disease as a leading cause of death in type
2 diabetes (T2D). The association of RAS-inhibitors (RASi) and cancer, including differences …

Background Few studies have examined the relationship between stressful social relations
in private life and all-cause mortality. Objective To evaluate the association between …

Background Previous studies have shown that differential exposure to lifestyle factors may
mediate the association between education and coronary heart diseases (CHD). However …

Pseudo‐values have proven very useful in censored data analysis in complex settings such
as multi‐state models. It was originally suggested by Andersen et al., Biometrika, 90, 2003 …

Research into cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) entails managing dynamic data that
pose an analytical challenge. Thus, methods that assume proportional hazards to …