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Evaluation of the impact of disease prevention measures: a methodological note on defining incidence rates

BACKGROUND: In studies of recurrent events, it is common to consider a person who has suffered a disease episode and received curative treatment to be not at risk of suffering a new episode for a duration of time. It is a common practice to deduct this duration from the person’s observation time in...

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Autores principales: Cheung, Yin-Bun, Xu, Ying, Cairns, Matthew, Milligan, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28431516
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0350-4