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Impacts of using different standard populations in calculating age-standardised death rates when age-specific death rates in the populations being compared do not have a consistent relationship: a cross-sectional population-based observational study on US state HIV death rates

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  • Shu-Yu Tai Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, TaiwanDepartment of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung, TaiwanDepartment of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Fu-Wen Liang Department of Public Health, College of Health Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yen-Yee Hng Department of Statistics, College of Managemen,National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yi-Hsuan Lo Department of Statistics, College of Managemen,National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tsung-Hsueh Lu Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tsung-Hsueh Lu; robertlu{at}mail.ncku.edu.tw
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Tai S, Liang F, Hng Y, et al
Impacts of using different standard populations in calculating age-standardised death rates when age-specific death rates in the populations being compared do not have a consistent relationship: a cross-sectional population-based observational study on US state HIV death rates
BMJ Open 2022;12:e056441. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056441

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  • Received August 18, 2021
  • Accepted March 4, 2022
  • First published April 18, 2022.
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October 25, 2023
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