Subdividing the Age Group of 85 Years and Older to Improve US Disease Reporting
AUTOR(ES)
Boscoe, Francis P.
FONTE
American Public Health Association
RESUMO
The standard terminal age category in disease reporting in the United States has been 85 years and older since the 1940s, but the dramatically increasing share of the US population reaching this age has rendered the single category inadequate for surveillance, research, and analysis. Important age-specific variations in mortality among the oldest old are masked by the continued use of this category.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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