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Methodology

Potential misinterpretations caused by collapsing upper categories of comorbidity indices: An illustration from a cohort of older breast cancer survivors

Thomas P Ahern1 Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Jaclyn LF Bosco2 Department of Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Rebecca A Silliman2 Department of Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Marianne Ulcickas Yood3 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Terry S Field4 Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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Feifei Wei5 HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Timothy L Lash1 Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Pages 93-100 | Published online: 23 Jun 2009

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