Impact of diagnostic accuracy on the estimation of excess mortality from incidence and prevalence: simulation study and application to diabetes in German men [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Aggregated data about the prevalence and incidence of chronic conditions is becoming more and more available. We recently proposed a method to estimate the age-specific excess mortality in chronic conditions from aggregated age-specific prevalence and incidence data. Previous works showed that in ag...

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Main Authors: Ralph Brinks, Thaddäus Tönnies, Annika Hoyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: F1000 Research Ltd 2021-01-01
Series:F1000Research
Online Access:https://f1000research.com/articles/10-49/v1