The effects of different lookback periods on the sociodemographic structure of the study population and on the estimation of incidence rates: analyses with German claims data

BACKGROUND: Defining incident cases has always been a challenging issue for researchers working with routine data. Lookback periods should enable researchers to identify and exclude recurrent cases and increase the accuracy of the incidence estimation. There are different recommendations for lookbac...

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Autores principales: Epping, Jelena, Geyer, Siegfried, Tetzlaff, Juliane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7488660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32917135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01108-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7488660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32917135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01108-6

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