Misinterpretation of time-to-first event curves can lead to inappropriate treatment

Affiliations

• ¹ Statistics and Programming, Veramed Ltd, Twickenham, UK.
• ² Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ³ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Lung Health Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
• ⁴ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.
• ⁵ University of Michigan, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ⁶ GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
• ⁷ GlaxoSmithKline, Stockley Park West, Uxbridge, UK.
• ⁸ Dept of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁹ Medical Dept, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark.
• ¹⁰ GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA, USA.
• ¹¹ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹² UCL Respiratory, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹³ GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, UK.
• ¹⁴ University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
• ¹⁵ New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁶ University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ¹⁷ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁸ GlaxoSmithKline, Stockley Park West, Uxbridge, UK sally.x.lettis@gsk.com.