Relative survival: A useful tool to assess generalisability in longitudinal studies of health in older persons

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hockey, Richard ^a   Tooth, Leigh ^a   Dobson, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79551602707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-8-3     Document Type: Article

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