Effects of misattribution in assigning cause of death on prostate cancer mortality rates

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 450-454

  Hoffman, Richard M ^a,c   Stone, S Noell ^a   Hunt, William C ^a   Key, Charles R ^a   Gilliland, Frank D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of Death; Death Certificates; Mortality; Prostatic Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW MEXICO; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037823177     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(02)00439-8     Document Type: Article

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