TY - JOUR AU - Cheung, Yin-Bun AU - Xu, Ying AU - Cairns, Matthew AU - Milligan, Paul PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/21 TI - Evaluation of the impact of disease prevention measures: a methodological note on defining incidence rates JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 72 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - In studies of recurrent events, it is common to consider a person who has suffered a disease episode and received curative treatment to be not at risk of suffering a new episode for a duration of time. It is a common practice to deduct this duration from the person’s observation time in the statistical analysis of the incidence data. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0350-4 DO - 10.1186/s12874-017-0350-4 ID - Cheung2017 ER -