Methodological choices affect cancer incidence rates: a cohort study

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• 作者：Hannah L. Brooke ; Mats Talbäck ; Maria Feychting ; Rickard Ljung
• 关键词：Incidence rate ; Cancer ; Methods ; Study population ; Standardized incidence ratio
• 刊名：Population Health Metrics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1213KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Epidemiology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1478-7954
• 卷排序：15

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BackgroundIncidence rates are fundamental to epidemiology, but their magnitude and interpretation depend on methodological choices. We aimed to examine the extent to which the definition of the study population affects cancer incidence rates.