Causal treatment effect decompositions with time-to-event outcomes under competing events
竞争事件下生存时间结局的因果治疗效应分解
Inference about treatment effects for time-to-event outcomes is often obscured by the presence of competing events. A particularly complex situation arises when the treatment influences the occurrence of the competing event. A comprehensive assessment should then account for different mechanisms by which the treatment and the competing event together produce the apparent treatment effect. Here, we propose a decomposition of the treatment's effect on the event of interest…