List the six steps involved with direct adjustment of rates.

What will be an ideal response?


1. Establish crude rates of the outcome of interest from observed population(s)
2. Determine the variables that are to be held constant
3. Calculate specific rates by categories of variables in observed population(s)
4. Determine expected number of outcome in standard population
5. Using expected numbers, calculate new specific rates
6. Sum expected outcomes to get new adjusted rate

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