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Kate Brameld | Zendy; C. D’Arcy J. Holman | Zendy; David Lawrence | Zendy; Michael Hobbs | Zendy

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Improved methods for estimating incidence from linked hospital morbidity data

Author(s) -

Kate Brameld,

C. D’Arcy J. Holman,

David Lawrence,

Michael Hobbs

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyg191

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , pediatrics , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , mathematics , geometry

Linked hospital morbidity data can be used to estimate the incidence of serious chronic disease. However, incidence rates calculated from first-time hospital admissions tend to be overestimated as a result of the erroneous inclusion of prevalent cases that have had previous hospital admissions prior to the study observation period. To address this problem, we have developed the backcasting method.

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