Disability weights for comorbidity and their influence on Health-adjusted Life Expectancy
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Disability weights for comorbidity and their influence on Health-adjusted Life Expectancy
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 unknown and no disability weights are defined for comorbidity. METHODS Using data of the Dutch national burden of disease study, the effects of different methods to adjust for comor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Population Health Metrics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1478-7954
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-4-1