Quality of death certificates: studying or burying?
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Does quality control of death certificates in hospitals have an impact on cause of death statistics?
BACKGROUND The effects of inaccurate death certificates on cause of death statistics are uncertain. Since 2008, Akershus University Hospital has systematically corrected all death certificates. The effects of these corrections on the total cause of death statistics from the hospital were studied. MATERIAL AND METHOD ICD-10 codes for the underlying cause of death on the original and the correc...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.80.6.751