Standard descriptive methods for the analysis of cancer surveillance data include canonical plots based on the lexis diagram, directly age-standardized rates (ASR), estimated annual percentage change (EAPC), and joinpoint regression. The age-period-cohort (APC) model has been used less often. Here...
(a)Report numbers of individuals at each stage of study—eg numbers potentially eligible, examined for eligibility, confirmed eligible, included in the study, completing follow-up, and analysed (b)Give reasons for non-participation at each stage (c)Consider use of a flow diagram Descriptivedata ...
eligible, included in the study, completing follow-up, and analysed (b) Give reasons for non-participation at each stage (c) Consider use of a flow diagram Descriptive data 14* (a) Give characteristics of study participants (eg demographic, ...
Y.F. and S.S. were involved in study conception and design. Y.F. extracted the data and completed the data analysis. E.F. managed data acquisition and contributed to study design. Y.F., S.S., C.G., E.F., and D.F. contributed to data interpretation. Y.F. and C.G. wrote t...
Objectives: To evaluate the age-period-cohort effects on overall mortality in Andalusia (Spain).Study design: An ecological study was implemented with a Lexis diagram triangle comprising each annual age group, year of death and year of birth as the unit of analysis.Methods: In all 1,384,899...
We identified 639 patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy during the study period. Of these, 404 patients met our inclusion criteria and were included in the final analysis (Fig. 1). Figure 1 Flow diagram of patients included in the study. Full size image Of the patients included, 60.1% were...
Flow diagram of the 2 study cohorts. Central Message The observed effect of antiaggregants and anticoagulants on the risk of infectious endocarditis might depend on study design and the setting in which they are prescribed. Perspective In this dual retrospective analysis, Ac were associated with the...
Flow diagram showing the Vlagtwedde–Vlaardingen study design Full size image Details on the associations between allergy markers and baseline characteristics of the subjects in 1965/1967/1969 and vital status in 2008 are presented in the Online Resource Tables 1 and 2, respectively. Among all 8,46...
Study flow diagram. Full size image The baseline characteristics of the two groups are presented in Table 1. The median age was slightly higher in the finasteride than dutasteride group (72.0 years vs. 71.1 years). Although pre-existing prostatic conditions and treatments were less frequent in th...
Flow-diagram of the overall study process in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia, August 8, 2019, to October 1, 2020. Full size image The mean age of women with preeclampsia was 25.35 ± 4.76 years old, and 24.62 ± 4.55) for normotensive women. More than half (55.9%, 229/...