Effect on local death rates of recent changes in the statistical treatment of hospital deaths.
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چکیده
A previous communication (Hewitt, 1957) drew attention to the disturbances in official mortality rates for local areas of England and Wales which had resulted from a change in the statistical treatment of deaths occurring in hospital. There have since been two further changes in the official procedure, and some revaluation is called for. Successive modifications of the statistical practice have been announced in the explanatory notes to the Statistical Review of England and Wales (RegistrarGeneral, 1954 (Corrigenda), 1957, 1960). In outline these have been as follows:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- British journal of preventive & social medicine
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1961