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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Jan 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Sep 10;74(1):186–192. doi: 10.1111/jgs.70093

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Weighted Differences in Follow-up Times Between the Sensitive Files and Medicare Data for Nondecedents According to Censoring Approach. Negative values indicate that follow-up times were shorter for the Sensitive Files than Medicare Data. As described in the Methods, participants were censored using two approaches: hybrid and last completed interview. The numbers of nondecedents for these approaches were 1702 and 1803 for the 2011 cohort and 1275 and 1511 for the 2015 cohort. For each box plot, the left border, midline, and right border represent the 75th percentile, median, and 25th percentile values, based on the magnitude of the negative values, while the red diamond represents the mean value. The lines from the boxes extend to the 95th and 5th percentiles, respectively. Follow-up time was determined from time of enrollment to loss to follow-up, i.e. censored, for Sensitive files or to end of the follow-up period (10 years for 2011 cohort and 5 years for 2015 cohort) for Medicare data.