Mortality and Attributable Fraction in COVID-19 Analysis: Avoiding Research Waste and Negligence

Affiliations

¹ Peter Morfeld and Thomas C. Erren are with the Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

Editorial

Peter Morfeld et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;110(11):1644-1645.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305887.

¹ Peter Morfeld and Thomas C. Erren are with the Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

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