(17) From 1990 to 2000 the age-adjusted rate of total knee replacements in Wisconsin increased 81.5% (162 to 294 per 100,000).

The findings for men undergoing PCI were somewhat different in that in all 3 settings there were increases in both the number of procedures as well as the age-adjusted rates.

In short, veterans undergoing revascularization procedures in non-VA centers were not included in the age-adjusted rates reported in this paper, and this in part could account for the lower rates.

The age-adjusted rate was 20 per 100,000.

Applying the corrected populations, the age-adjusted rates using the life - table method became 32 with 1995-97 data, 34 with 1992-94 data, and using the survey method was 37.

Rates are often adjusted (e.g., age-adjusted rates) to allow a more accurate comparison of rates over time or among groups.

Overall cancer rates in the Amish population are 60 percent of the age-adjusted rate for Ohio and 56 percent of the national rate.

The age-adjusted annual rate declined steadily for years, but it leveled off after 1983, when Federal cost-containment efforts began in earnest and the average length of hospital stays started to decline.

As noted earlier,(p. 17), between 1953 and 1978 the age-adjusted rate of suicide by means of firearms increased from 4.9 to 7.1 per 100 000 population, while rates for other methods remained unchanged (Boyd 1983).

We also calculated age-adjusted rates standardized to the fee-for-service sample.