The Automated Classification of Medical Entities (ACME) system objectively assessed the appropriateness of underlying cause-of-death certification and assignment

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1277-1281

  Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^a   Tsau, Shih Ming ^b   Wu, Tzu Chin ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cause of death; Death certificate; Taiwan; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 27744564978     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.03.017     Document Type: Article

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