State-level adjusted ESRD incident rates: Use of observed vs model-predicted category-specific rates

Kidney International

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1459-1463

  Liu, J ^a   Louis, T A ^b   Pan, W ^c   Ma, J Z ^d   Collins, A J ^a,e  

^a MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjusted rate; Direct adjustment method; End stage renal disease; Incident rate; Model based method; Observation based method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MIX; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CENSUSES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646140930     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5000299     Document Type: Article

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