Additionally, in the re-audit, 8% of case-notes included more than 5 different measures.
Ozguler and associates suggested that future studies should pay more attention to different measures of LBP [ 16].
The slope index of inequality (SII) has some attractive properties: it gives an inequality measure across the full range of SEP; not just comparing the two extreme groups, it accounts for differing group sizes, and allows a more fair comparison across different measures of SEP.
Also, while other studies have tended to compare area-based measures to household-level survey data[ 6, 8, 9] or have compared two or more different sized area-based measures[ 10, 11] we have used highly reliable household-level income data validated with the Canada Revenue Agency.
By more than a dozen different measures of maternal and fetal health, too, the researchers could find no difference between the two groups.
It has been reported that households' living in areas, where the amount of rainfall is less and high temperature than the average is more likely to employ different measures than households' receiving much rainfall and less temperature (Guto et al. 2012).
Further, strong relationships could be expected to be more consistent across the different measures.
The rationale for conducting this analysis is that AIM panels generated by different measures are more similar when only the top AIMs are considered, which makes it difficult to compare their performances using only the top AIMs.
To inform a more appropriate application of the different measures currently used in quantifying health inequities, this article explicates common theories underlying the definition of health inequities and uses this understanding to show the utility and limitations of these different measures.
Spearman's correlations were also calculated for the individual items within and between each measurement, with the assumption being that similar dimensions in different measures should correlate more highly than different dimensions within the same measure.
