Dr. Joseph Kim joins Dr. Maarten Coemans and Dr. Maarten Naesens to discuss their recently published article "A competing risks model to estimate the risk of graft failure and patient death after kidney transplantation using continuous donor-recipient age combinations."

Read the article here:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.07...

See the below references Drs. Coemans and Naesens believe are important publications on competing risks:
1. Wolbers M, Koller MT, Stel VS, et al. Competing risks analyses: objectives and approaches. Eur Heart J. 2014;35(42):2936-2941. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehu131
2. Andersen PK, Geskus RB, de Witte T, Putter H. Competing risks in epidemiology: possibilities and pitfalls. Int J Epidemiol. 2012;41(3):861-870. doi:10.1093/ije/dyr213
3. Coemans M, Verbeke G, Döhler B, Süsal C, Naesens M. Bias by censoring for competing events in survival analysis. BMJ. Published online September 13, 2022:e071349. doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-071349
4. Noordzij M, Leffondré K, van Stralen KJ, Zoccali C, Dekker FW, Jager KJ. When do we need competing risks methods for survival analysis in nephrology? Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2013;28(11):2670-2677. doi:10.1093/ndt/gft355
5. Ravani P, Fiocco M, Liu P, et al. Influence of mortality on estimating the risk of kidney failure in people with stage 4 CKD. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2019;30(11):2219-2227. doi:10.1681/ASN.2019060640