Study: Measuring life-years lost could provide better assessment of mortality trends

(By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Assessing the years of life lost due to a disease, as opposed to the amount of deaths, may be a more effective strategy to analyze long term mortality trends, according to a Cleveland Clinic study published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health. Continue reading article here…

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