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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2015 Sep;26(5):690–699. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000355

Table 2.

Person Time, All-Cause Mortality Rate and 1-, 2-, and 3-year Mortality Risk Comparison Among Treatment Groups in the Full and Instrumental Variable populations

Treatment Group Person Time
(Years)*
Events
within 3-years
Mortality
Rate
(per 100
person-years)
1-year risk 2-year risk 3-year risk
Full population (n=3,660)
5- fluorouracil (5-FU) 5,234 602 11.5 11.3% 21.3% 29.0%
Oxaliplatin (with 5-
FU/capecitabine)
4,008 354 8.8 7.9% 18.1% 24.7%
Instrumental Variable population (n=2,881)
5- fluorouracil (5-FU) 4,495 526 11.7 11.3% 21.6% 29.4%
Oxaliplatin (with 5-
FU/capecitabine)
2,839 248 8.7 7.9% 16.9% 23.0%
*

Patients administratively censored three years after treatment initiation