Canadian mortality rates for liver disease: Taking a closer look at ICD coding

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 198-200

  Desai, Snehal ^a   Peltekian, Kevork M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PARASITOSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION;

CANADA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES;

EID: 2942739240     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403648     Document Type: Note

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