Department of Clinical Medicine (Biostatistics), Kitasato University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Oncologist. 2019 Jul;24(7):867-871. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2018-0141. Epub 2018 Sep 10.
In randomized clinical trials, the magnitude of the treatment effect is often reported using the hazard ratio (HR) even when the proportional hazards (PH) assumption is not met. Conducting numerical studies, this commentary illustrates how/why the HR estimate via the standard Cox's procedure is difficult to interpret even as an “average” treatment effect for non‐PH cases.
在随机临床试验中,即使不符合比例风险(PH)假设,也常使用风险比(HR)来报告治疗效果的大小。通过数值研究,本评论说明了即使对于非 PH 情况,标准 Cox 程序的 HR 估计值作为“平均”治疗效果也很难解释。