Comparing Swedish hospital discharge records with death certificates: implications for mortality statistics
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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: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/intjepid/29.3.495