What to Break Throughs and Progresses Look Like in Statistics?

The world is constantly changing, and the way clinical trials are run are constantly changing. As our studies get more and more complex, standard statistical methodology fails to be adequate for analyzing it. So one of the things that i looked at for my ph d is of current event modelling. In heart failure, you've got this complication that the more hospitali s you have, the more likely you are to die. And so it's can i analyze hospitalizations and deaths at the same time in some way? That's where standard methodology just doesn't exist.