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A patient is scored as censored if he or she did not suffer the outcome of interest. In survival analysis, patients who do not have an “event” during a specified period are said to have censored observation. A right‐censoring situation occurs when the terminal event is not observed; instead, it is only known that this event is at least later than a given point in time. Censored observations can arise in three ways: 1) the patient is known to be still alive when the trial analysis is carried out; 2) the patient was known to be alive at some past follow-up, but the investigator has since lost trace of him; 3) the patient has died of some cause totally unrelated to the disease in the survival analysis.
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(2008). Censored (Patient) . In: Kirch, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Public Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5614-7_342
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