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Beyond case fatality rate: using potential impact fraction to estimate the effect of increasing treatment uptake on mortality

BACKGROUND: IMPACT is an epidemiological model that has been used to estimate how increased treatment uptakes affect mortality and related outcomes. The model calculations require the use of case fatality rate estimates under no treatment. Due to the lack of data, rates where treatment is partially...

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Autores principales: Mitsakakis, Nicholas, Wijeysundera, Harindra C, Krahn, Murray
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24006924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-13-109