Competing Risk Model for Dengue Epidemiology in Sri Lanka : Modeling Length of Stay in Hospital

Karunarathna, G.H.S.; Sooriyarachchi, M.R.

dc.contributor.author	Karunarathna, G.H.S.
dc.contributor.author	Sooriyarachchi, M.R.
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-07T03:26:07Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-07T03:26:07Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.citation	G.H.S. Karunarathna and M. R. Sooriyarachchi (2017). Competing Risk Model for Dengue Epidemiology in Sri Lanka : Modeling Length of Stay in Hospital. Tropical Agricultural Research Vol. 28(2): 200 – 210 (2017). Short Communication	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/70130/5467
dc.description.abstract	This paper focuses on exploring methods for analyzing length of stay in hospital and the discharge endpoint for dengue patients reported from high risk areas of Sri Lanka during the period of 2006-2008. Due to the length of stay being related to different endpoints, the response of length of stay is modeled with the concept of competing risk. A popular competing risk model of subdistribution proportional hazard model was fitted to find out the associated factors for different end points of the discharge competing risk model. Moreover this study concludes that the effect of age, ethnicity, dengue classification, district and platelet count are important to the discharge status of the competing risk model	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	University of Colombo Grant	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Competing risk model, Hazard, Length of stay, Subdistribution proportional hazards model	en_US
dc.title	Competing Risk Model for Dengue Epidemiology in Sri Lanka : Modeling Length of Stay in Hospital	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US