Predicting kidney failure from longitudinal kidney function trajectory: A comparison of models.
Jan A J G van den BrandTjeerd M H DijkstraJack WetzelsBénédicte StengelMarie MetzgerPeter J BlankestijnHiddo J Lambers HeerspinkRon T GansevoortPublished in: PloS one (2019)
In the present studies, where the outcome was rare and follow-up data was highly complete, the joint models did not offer improvement in predictive performance over more traditional approaches such as a survival model with time-varying eGFR, or a model with eGFR slope.