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Different approaches to quantify years of life lost from COVID-19

The burden of an epidemic is often characterized by death counts, but this can be misleading as it fails to acknowledge the age of the deceased patients. Years of life lost is therefore widely used as a more relevant metric, however, such calculations in the context of COVID-19 are all biased upward...

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Autor principal: Ferenci, Tamás
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34114188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00774-0