Principles for including or excluding 'mechanisms' of death when writing cause-of-death statements

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 377-380

  Hanzlick, Randy ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0030893252     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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