Hello everyone,
I'm trying to reproduce a certain study using the same statistical method with the National inpatient sample database, but I'm not sure what they accomplished. Here's the procedure; if anyone could comment on it, that would be great.
Age‐, sex‐, and race/ethnic‐specific hospitalization rates were calculated using the weighted number of hospitalizations as the numerator and the US civilian population as the denominator. Yearly rate comparisons across years were standardized with the age distribution of the US population in 2000. For comparison across year and sex, all rates were standardized with the age distribution of the US female population in 2000, while for comparison across year and race, all rates are were standardized with the age distribution of the US white population in 2000
I'm trying to reproduce a certain study using the same statistical method with the National inpatient sample database, but I'm not sure what they accomplished. Here's the procedure; if anyone could comment on it, that would be great.
Age‐, sex‐, and race/ethnic‐specific hospitalization rates were calculated using the weighted number of hospitalizations as the numerator and the US civilian population as the denominator. Yearly rate comparisons across years were standardized with the age distribution of the US population in 2000. For comparison across year and sex, all rates were standardized with the age distribution of the US female population in 2000, while for comparison across year and race, all rates are were standardized with the age distribution of the US white population in 2000
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