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The effect of the look-back period for estimating incidence using administrative data

BACKGROUND: The look-back period is needed to define baseline population for estimating incidence. However, short look-back period is known to overestimate incidence of diseases misclassifying prevalent cases to incident cases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the various lengt...

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Autores principales: Kim, Mira, Chae, Kyung-Hee, Chung, Youn-Jee, Hwang, HyeJin, Lee, MinKyung, Kim, Hyun-Kyung, Cho, Hyun-Hee, Kim, Mee-Ran, Jung, Chai-Young, Kim, Sukil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7057623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32131818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-5016-y