Systematic review and meta-analysis: a brief introduction.

1. Understand the basic structure and parts of a systematic review 2. Be able to read and critically appraise a published systematic review.

Model-free estimates that complement information obtained from the hazard ratio.

Unlabelled: Understand the limitations of the modeling of survival data, especially as pertains to the Cox proportional hazards model.An introduction to model-free estimates of survival, namely, the restricted mean survival time/restricted mean lost time.Use R (The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Austria) or STATA® (The STATACorp, College Station, TX, USA) to perform analyses and obtain these parameters from a dataset.