Assessing two methods for estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data | BMC Research Notes | Full Text

Assessing two methods for estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data | BMC Research Notes | Full Text

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Assessing two methods for estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data

The aim of this Research Note by Brinks et al was to assess the performance of two recently published estimators for the excess mortality of a chronic disease from prevalence and incidence data. It was found that special attention is required when interpreting the results at lower age ranges.