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Table 3 Example of summary measures collected from the original publication example [7] and their corresponding estimates obtained from the reconstructed IPD

From: Enhanced secondary analysis of survival data: reconstructing the data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves

 

Original publication

Reconstructed IPD

Radiotherapy arm

survival rate (1 year)

55

56.1 (49.6; 63.3)

survival rate (2 years)

41

41.1 (34.7; 48.6)

survival rate (3 years)

34

34.7 (28.4; 42.5)

median duration

14.9

14.9 (11.9; 23.0)

Radiotherapy plus cetuximab arm

survival rate (1 year)

63

64.0 (57.8; 70.9)

survival rate (2 years)

50

50.4 (43.9; 57.8)

survival rate (3 years)

47

46.7 (40.1; 54.4)

median duration

24.4

24.3 (15.7; 45.7)

Hazard ratio with 95%CI

 

0.68 (0.52; 0.89)

0.73 (0.57; 0.94)