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An approach to adjust standardized mortality ratios for competing cause of death in cohort studies

PURPOSE: The calculation of standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) is a standard tool for the estimation of health risks in occupational epidemiology. An increasing number of studies deal with the analysis of the mortality in employees suffering from an occupational disease like silicosis or coal-work...

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Autor principal: Möhner, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4828478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26483290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-015-1097-z