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EBMT cause of death data: Data from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)

Description

A data frame of 8966 patients transplanted at the EBMT. The included variables are

id

Patient identification number

time

Time in months from transplantation to death or last follow-up

status

Survival status; 0 = censored; 1,...,6 = death due to the following causes: Relapse (1), GvHD (2), Bacterial infections (3), Viral infections (4), Fungal infections (5), Other causes (6)

cod

Cause of death as factor with levels "Alive", "Relapse", "GvHD", "Bacterial", "Viral", "Fungal", "Other"

dissub

Disease subclassification; factor with levels "AML", "ALL", "CML"

match

Donor-recipient gender match; factor with levels "No gender mismatch", "Gender mismatch"

tcd

T-cell depletion; factor with levels "No TCD", "TCD", "Unknown"

year

Year of transplantation; factor with levels "1985-1989", "1990-1994", "1995-1998"

age

Patient age at transplant; factor with levels "<=20", "20-40", ">40"

Arguments

Format

A data frame, see data.frame.

References

Fiocco M, Putter H, van Houwelingen JC (2005). Reduced rank proportional hazards model for competing risks. Biostatistics 6, 465--478.