The population-attributable fraction for time-dependent exposures and competing risks-A discussion on estimands.
competing risks
hospital-acquired infection
mortality
population-attributable risk
time-dependent exposure
Journal
Statistics in medicine
ISSN: 1097-0258
Titre abrégé: Stat Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8215016
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 09 2019
10 09 2019
Historique:
received:
22
05
2018
revised:
02
05
2019
accepted:
03
05
2019
pubmed:
5
6
2019
medline:
18
12
2020
entrez:
5
6
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The population-attributable fraction (PAF) quantifies the public health impact of a harmful exposure. Despite being a measure of significant importance, an estimand accommodating complicated time-to-event data is not clearly defined. We discuss current estimands of the PAF used to quantify the public health impact of an internal time-dependent exposure for data subject to competing outcomes. To overcome some limitations, we proposed a novel estimand that is based on dynamic prediction by landmarking. In a profound simulation study, we discuss interpretation and performance of the various estimands and their estimators. The methods are applied to a large French database to estimate the health impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia for patients in intensive care.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3880-3895Informations de copyright
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.