Table 1 Description of methods evaluated using simulated data

$1-{Ŝ}_{dis}\left(t\right)$

Complement of the Kaplan-Meier estimator of hospital discharge, obtained by censoring those patients who died at their time of death

${\widehat{CI}}_{dis}\left(t\right)$

Estimate of cumulative incidence function of hospital discharge, obtained by treating in-hospital mortality as a competing risk

$1-{Ŝ}_{dis}^R\left(t\right)$

Complement of the KM estimator of hospital discharge, obtained by removing those patients who died

$1-{Ŝ}_{dis}^W\left(t\right)$

Complement of the KM estimator of hospital discharge, obtained by censoring those patients who died at the longest recorded LOS (30 days)