Hazard ratios hide who benefits from anthracyclines in early breast cancer
Hazard ratios assume uniform benefit, but anthracycline’s absolute benefit and cardiac harm both depend on baseline risk, not the ratio itself.
NHS PREDICT – R Package
Data Scientist Giovanni Tramonti has produced an implementation of the NHS Predict decision tool for batch processing. Available on the R CRAN. This is useful for producing a patient-level mortality risk estimate from breast cancer staging information. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nhs.predict/index.html
HealthyR
HealthyR: R for Healthcare Data Analysis is an amazing 2.5 day quick start course run by Surgical Informatics. This introduces healthcare researchers with no experience of using the industry-standard R computer coding language for data science. It takes an innovative approach, is delivered on bespoke servers, and uses code specially designed for education. Free HealthyR resources and […]