Age-specific prevalence and years of healthy life in a system with three health states

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1371-1386

  Diehr, Paula ^a   Yanez, David ^a   Derleth, Ann ^b   Newman, Anne B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Veterans Administration Center for Excellence in Research on the Older Adult   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi state lifetable; Prevalence; Self rated health; Sullivan method; Variance for area under the curve; Years of healthy life

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; DEATH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE TABLE METHOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE FACTORS; BIOMETRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 42149168540     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3056     Document Type: Article

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