Accuracy of cause-of-death coding in Taiwan: Types of miscoding and effects on mortality statistics

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 336-343

  Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^a   Lee, Meng Chih ^a   Chou, Ming Chih ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Coding; Death certificates; ICD 9; Mortality; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CODING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; INTOXICATION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEPHROSIS; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0034036437     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/29.2.336     Document Type: Article

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