Using Survival Analysis to Improve Estimates of Life Year Gains in Policy Evaluations
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989x16654444
Abstract: Background. Policy evaluations taking a lifetime horizon have converted estimated changes in short-term mortality to expected life year gains using general population life expectancy. However, the life expectancy of the affected patients may differ from… read more here.
Keywords: life year; year gains; life; life expectancy ... See more keywords