Estimating time to event characteristics via longitudinal threshold regression models - an application to cervical dilation progression.

ABSTRACT: In longitudinal studies, it is sometimes of interest to estimate the distribution of the time a longitudinal process takes to traverse from one threshold to another. For example, the distribution of the time it takes a woman's cervical dilation to progress from 3 to 4 cm can aid the decision-making of obstetricians as to whether a stalled labor should be allowed to proceed or stopped in favor of other options. Often researchers treat this type of data structure as interval censored and employ traditional survival analysis methods. However, the traditional interval censoring approaches are inefficient in that they do not use all of the available data. In this paper, we propose utilizing a longitudinal threshold model to estimate the distribution of the elapsed time between two thresholds of

SUBMITTER: Mulatya CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5048533 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature