Losses to Follow‐Up in a Nationally Representative Study of Community‐Living Older Americans: Two Approaches to Censoring and Implications for Mortality Outcomes
When evaluating mortality using the NHATS Sensitive files, investigators should consider censoring all participants who are lost to follow-up at the time of the last completed interview, recognizing potential trade-offs in terms of reductions in power and precision.
Authors
- Thomas M. Gill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6450-0368)
- Kendra Davis‐Plourde (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-0710)
- Jingchen Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-5234)
- Robert D. Becher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3717-865X)
Institutions
- Yale University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Published
- 2025-09-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.70093
- Primary Topic
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00