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Hazard Ratio

The ratio of hazard rates between two groups, commonly used to express treatment effects in time-to-event analyses.

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The hazard ratio (HR) is the ratio of the hazard rate in the treatment group to the hazard rate in the comparator group at any given time. An HR < 1 indicates the treatment reduces the risk of the event. HRs from clinical trials are used to derive treatment-specific survival curves in economic models, typically by applying the HR to a baseline (comparator) survival function.

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