Transition to the new race/ethnicity data collection standards in the Department of Veterans Affairs [0.03%]
退伍军人事务部新的种族和族裔数据收集标准的转换政策及影响研究报告摘要
Min-Woong Sohn,Huiyuan Zhang,Noreen Arnold et al.
Min-Woong Sohn et al.
Background: Patient race in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) information system was previously recorded based on an administrative or clinical employee's observation. Since 2003, the VA started to collect self-repo...
Place-of-residence errors on death certificates for two contiguous U. S. counties [0.03%]
美国两个相邻县死亡证明上的居住地错误
J Rush Pierce Jr,Anne V Denison
J Rush Pierce Jr
Background: Based on death certificate data, the Texas Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics calculates age adjusted all-cause mortality rates for each Texas county yearly. In 1998 the calculated rates for two a...
Diabetes and urbanization in the Omani population: an analysis of national survey data [0.03%]
糖尿病与阿曼人口的城市化：一项基于全国调查数据的分析
Siba Al-Moosa,Sara Allin,Nadia Jemiai et al.
Siba Al-Moosa et al.
Background: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Oman is high and appears to be rising. Rising rates of diabetes and associated risk factors have been observed in populations undergoing epidemiological transition and urba...
Adjusting for dependent comorbidity in the calculation of healthy life expectancy [0.03%]
校正共病相关性以计算健康预期寿命
Colin D Mathers,Kim M Iburg,Stephen Begg
Colin D Mathers
Background: Healthy life expectancy--sometimes called health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)--is a form of health expectancy indicator that extends measures of life expectancy to account for the distribution of health sta...
Kim Moesgaard Iburg,Niels Kristian Rasmussen,Kirsten Avlund
Kim Moesgaard Iburg
Objective: To estimate and rank the relative severity of self-reported diseases and symptoms in Denmark. Method: The 1994 Danish Health...
Accuracy and completeness of mortality data in the Department of Veterans Affairs [0.03%]
美国退伍军人事务部的死亡率数据的准确性和全面性
Min-Woong Sohn,Noreen Arnold,Charles Maynard et al.
Min-Woong Sohn et al.
Background: One of the national mortality databases in the U.S. is the Beneficiary Identification and Record Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File that contains death dates of those who have received any benefits from the ...
Disability weights for comorbidity and their influence on health-adjusted life expectancy [0.03%]
共病的残疾权重及其对健康调整寿命年的影响力
Pieter H M van Baal,Nancy Hoeymans,Rudolf T Hoogenveen et al.
Pieter H M van Baal et al.
Background: Comorbidity complicates estimations of health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) using disease prevalences and disability weights from Burden of Disease studies. Usually, the exact amount of comorbidity is unknow...
Describing the longitudinal course of major depression using Markov models: data integration across three national surveys [0.03%]
Scott B Patten,Robert C Lee
Scott B Patten
Background: Most epidemiological studies of major depression report period prevalence estimates. These are of limited utility in characterizing the longitudinal epidemiology of this condition. Markov models provide a meth...
Laura J Damschroder,Todd R Roberts,Christine C Goldstein et al.
Laura J Damschroder et al.
Background: Person trade-off (PTO) elicitations yield different values than standard utility measures, such as time trade-off (TTO) elicitations. Some people believe this difference arises because the PTO captures the imp...
Collection of population-based cancer staging information in Western Australia--a feasibility study [0.03%]
人口为基础的癌症病理信息在澳大利亚西澳州收集——可行性研究
Timothy Threlfall,Jana Wittorff,Padabphet Boutdara et al.
Timothy Threlfall et al.
Background: Routine data from cancer registries often lack information on stage of cancer, limiting their use. This study aimed to determine whether or not it is feasible to add cancer staging data to the routine data col...