Meanings of standardized rates in English

Results are presented as age-specific and age- standardized rates.

Crude and age- standardized rates per 100,000 person-years were calculated.

Objective: The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently introduced a new world standard population for the production of age- standardized rates.

We developed an outcome measure to profile outpatient facilities by estimating risk- standardized rates of unplanned hospital visits within 7 days of colonoscopy.

Results are reported in absolute numbers and age- standardized rates (per 100,000 population) with 95% uncertainty intervals.

For most cancers considered, the number of cases will keep rising up to 2020, although decreasing trends of age- standardized rates are expected for some tumours.