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Life expectancy in cerebral palsy: an update

2008; Wiley; Volume: 50; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03000.x

1469-8749

David Strauss, Jordan Brooks, Lewis Rosenbloom, Robert M. Shavelle,

Health disparities and outcomes

This paper clarifies and updates some issues of life expectancy in cerebral palsy. These are: (1) the definition of life expectancy and how it is calculated; (2) the secular trends that have occurred since the data for the 1998 paper were collected; (3) revised estimates reflecting improvements of some of the analytical methods and statistics provided in that paper; (4) comparison of life expectancies among countries; (5) issues regarding quality of care; and (6) consideration of prospective life expectations in addition to current life expectancy.