Measuring social class differences in cancer patient survival: is it necessary to control for social class differences in general population mortality? A Finnish population-based study.
Estimation of cancer patient survival by social class has been performed using observed, corrected (cause specific), and relative (with expected survival based on the national population) survival rates. Each of these measures are potentially biased and the optimal method is to calculate relative su...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health Vol. 52; no. 11; pp. 727 - 735 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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BMJ Publishing Group
Nov1998
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |