KAPLAN-MEIER CURVE at Medical Glossary

What is it? A way of graphing patient progress (how many are still alive or free of infection) against time: A lifetable curve showing the percent of people free of a specific event at times following randomization. The Kaplan-Meier method is especially well suited t

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