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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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Autores principales: Elie, Caroline, De Rycke, Y, Jais, JP, Landais, P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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