Assignment task:
You are working with a 68-year-old male recently diagnosed with congestive health failure (CHF). You have offered him information on the causes of the illness and his risk factors. After discussion he has decided to start the "typical" treatment. He is worried if he is going to be alive to see his grand-daughter graduate from college and ask if he will be alive in 5 years. To be able to answer his question you find a cohort study that was completed from 2016 to 2022 on male patients taking the same medication that you prescribed this patient with the same education and risk factors. In the study there were 5341 males enrolled with 766 dying due to their CHF in the first year. There were 50 patients that were lost to follow-up. The following years the number of patients that died, or withdrew were: Year Died Withdrew 2017 580 40 2018 500 15 2019 525 17 2020 530 13 2021 600 21 2022 615 10 What are you going to tell the patient about his 5-year survival probability?