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| Comparison of Age-Standardized Incidence Rates by Places and Times: Reported Cases of Scrub Typhus in Jeju-do, 2011-2016 |
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Eun Hee Kim, Jong-Myon Bae |
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Department of Preventive Medicine, Jeju National University Scool of Medicine, Jeju-do, Korea |
Correspondence:
Jong-Myon Bae, Email: jmbae@jejunu.ac.kr
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| Abstract |
Objectives
The aim was to evaluate different results from using crude incidence rate (CIR) instead of age-standardized incidence rate (AIR) when comparing groups having different age structures.
Methods
After selecting a report using CIRs, AIRs and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) was calculated from the raw data. The statistically significant difference between CIR and AIR was decided based on AIR’s 95% CI.
Results
Comparing with AIRs, CIRs were over-estimated. And these effects led wrong inferences.
Conclusions
These findings are an additional evidence using AIR when comparing level of occurring infectious diseases on groups with different age structures. |
| Key Words:
Scrub, typhus, Rickettsia, Ecology |
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