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New ways of estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data: insights from the illness-death model

BACKGROUND: Recently, we have shown that the age-specific prevalence of a disease can be related to the transition rates in the illness-death model via a partial differential equation (PDE). The transition rates are the incidence rate, the remission rate and mortality rates from the ‘Healthy’ and ‘I...

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Autores principales: Brinks, Ralph, Tönnies, Thaddäus, Hoyer, Annika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31253126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7201-7