Competing causes of death: A death certificate study
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Competing causes of death: a death certificate study.
BACKGROUND Despite the widespread interest in competing causes of death, empirical information on interrelationships between causes of death is scarce. We have used death certificate information to estimate the prevalence of competing causes of death at the moment of dying from specific underlying causes of death. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a stratified sample of 5975 deaths occurring in The Ne...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0895-4356
DOI: 10.1016/s0895-4356(97)00165-0