期刊
BIOMETRICS
卷 69, 期 4, 页码 850-860出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12096
关键词
Bias analysis; Cox model; Omitted covariates; Sensitivity analysis; Survival analysis; Unmeasured confounding
资金
- Medical Research Council [G0902158]
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- MRC [G0902158] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0902158] Funding Source: researchfish
Omission of relevant covariates can lead to bias when estimating treatment or exposure effects from survival data in both randomized controlled trials and observational studies. This paper presents a general approach to assessing bias when covariates are omitted from the Cox model. The proposed method is applicable to both randomized and non-randomized studies. We distinguish between the effects of three possible sources of bias: omission of a balanced covariate, data censoring and unmeasured confounding. Asymptotic formulae for determining the bias are derived from the large sample properties of the maximum likelihood estimator. A simulation study is used to demonstrate the validity of the bias formulae and to characterize the influence of the different sources of bias. It is shown that the bias converges to fixed limits as the effect of the omitted covariate increases, irrespective of the degree of confounding. The bias formulae are used as the basis for developing a new method of sensitivity analysis to assess the impact of omitted covariates on estimates of treatment or exposure effects. In simulation studies, the proposed method gave unbiased treatment estimates and confidence intervals with good coverage when the true sensitivity parameters were known. We describe application of the method to a randomized controlled trial and a non-randomized study.
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