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
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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.
STUDY OBJECTIVES 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 survival rates using social class specific death rates to estimate expected surviv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.11.727