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The influence of patient case mix on public health area statistics for cancer stage at diagnosis: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Summary statistics comparing the stage at diagnosis of geographically defined populations of cancer patients are increasingly used in public reporting to monitor geographical inequalities but may be confounded by patient case mix. We explore the impact of case-mix adjustment on a publicl...

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Autores principales: Barclay, Matthew E, Abel, Gary A, Elliss-Brookes, Lucy, Greenberg, David C, Lyratzopoulos, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6896974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30869123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz024