Reliability of death certificates for patients with cancer in France;Qualite des certificats de deces en cas de deces par cancer en France

Bulletin du Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 967-969

  Laplanche, Agnès ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cause of death; Death certificate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FRANCE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FRANCE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032196076     PISSN: 00074551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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