An empirical comparison of time-to-event models to analyse a composite outcome in the presence of death as a competing risk

INTRODUCTION: Competing risks arise when subjects are exposed to multiple mutually exclusive failure events, and the occurrence of one failure hinders the occurrence of other failure events. In the presence of competing risks, it is important to use methods accounting for competing events because failure to account for these events might result in misleading inferences. METHODS AND OBJECTIVE: Using data from a multisite retrospective …