New Deales

Other Approximation of Life Expectancy

Emmett B. Keeler, Robert M. Bell

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1992Published In: Medical Decision Making, 1992, p. 307-311

Describes how the Deale can be used to combine information about disease-related mortality and natural life expectancy to compute life expectancy for people with severe disease.

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  • Copyright: Sage Publications
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1992
  • Pages: 5
  • Document Number: EP-199200-43

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