Mapping small area cancer mortality: a residential coding story.
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Mapping small area cancer mortality: a residential coding story.
During the compilation of an atlas of cancer mortality in England and Wales on a small area scale, one rural district was found to have raised death rates for most sites of cancer. On investigation this proved to be related to the opening in that district of a home for patients terminally ill with cancer. Deaths occurring in the home to patients from outside areas were not consistently transfer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.38.1.81