Comparing hospital discharge records with death certificates: Can the differences be explained?
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Comparing hospital discharge records with death certificates: can the differences be explained?
STUDY OBJECTIVE The quality of mortality statistics is important for epidemiological research. Considerable discrepancies have been reported between death certificates and corresponding hospital discharge records. This study examines whether differences between the death certificate's underlying cause of death and the main condition from the final hospital discharge record can be explained by d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.56.4.301