Comparison of National Death Index and World Wide Web death searches

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 107-111

  Sesso, Howard D ^a,b   Paffenbarger, Ralph S ^a,c   Lee, I Min ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer systems; Epidemiologic methods; Internet; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COST; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (U.S.); UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0034661912     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/152.2.107     Document Type: Article

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