Life table analysis of AIDS mortality.

نویسنده

  • R E Braun
چکیده

The first study was a retrospective analysis of 5,833 AIDS cases (based on the pre-1987 CDC clinical case definition) reported to the city of New York prior to December 31, 1985. The analysis of survival was done by a cross-linkage of death records. The authors acknowledge that this method "may have resulted in some underascertainment of deaths due to outmigration." If a subject moved his or her permanent address out of New York City prior to death, they could be incorrectly included as a survivor.1 v

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of insurance medicine

دوره 23 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1991