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Incidence, prevalence, and hybrid approaches to calculating disability-adjusted life years

When disability-adjusted life years are used to measure the burden of disease on a population in a time interval, they can be calculated in several different ways: from an incidence, pure prevalence, or hybrid perspective. I show that these calculation methods are not equivalent and discuss some of...

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Autor principal: Schroeder, S Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22967055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-10-19