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Appraising relative and excess mortality in population-based studies of chronic diseases such as end-stage renal disease
PURPOSE: Modeling excess and relative mortality represents two ways of considering general population mortality rates (ie, background mortality) in cohort studies. Excess mortality is obtained by subtracting the expected mortality from the observed mortality (additive hazard model). Relative mortali...
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Dove Medical Press
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096516/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21607017 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S17349 |