The Use of Survival Analysis for the Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Therapy

Pilot Study of Patient Response to Multiple Impulse Therapy for Musculoskeletal Complaints

“…That is, only whether the patients were pain-free or still in pain on their final visit was noted. The final visit rating was used as input to a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis 10,11 to determine the probability of pain during the course of therapy. The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis is designed to account for subjects who exit the trial before achieving the desired outcome (in this case a bpain-freeQ state) and subjects who stay the course of the trial but do not achieve the desired outcome either.…”