Disability weights for comorbidity and their influence on Health-adjusted Life Expectancy
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Comorbidity complicates estimations of health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) using disease prevalences and disability weights from Burden of Disease studies. Usually, the exact amount of comorbidity is unknown and no disability weig...
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Main Authors: | de Wit G Ardine (Author), Hoogenveen Rudolf T (Author), Hoeymans Nancy (Author), van Baal Pieter HM (Author), Westert Gert P (Author) |
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2006-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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