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Avoidable deaths and random variation in patients' survival

BACKGROUND: Random error in the numbers of avoidable deaths among cancer patients has not been considered in earlier studies. METHODS: Methods to obtain valid confidence intervals (CIs) for numbers of avoidable deaths were developed. The excess mortality rates were estimated for patients diagnosed w...

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Autores principales: Seppä, K, Hakulinen, T, Läärä, E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22531640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2012.169