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Life years lost among patients with a given disease
Author(s) -
Andersen Per Kragh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.7357
Subject(s) - danish , years of potential life lost , life table , disease , table (database) , markov model , population , markov chain , demography , gerontology , medicine , statistics , computer science , life expectancy , mathematics , data mining , sociology , philosophy , linguistics
A number of suggested measures of life years lost among patients with a given disease are reviewed, and some new ones are proposed. The methods are all phrased in the framework of a (Markov or non‐Markov) illness‐death model in combination with a population life table. The methods are illustrated using data on Danish male patients with bipolar disorder, and some recommendations are given. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.