Place-of-residence errors on death certificates for two contiguous U. S. counties

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pierce Jr , J Rush ^a,b,c   Denison, Anne V ^a,b  

^a Amarillo Department of Public Health   (United States)

^b The Amarillo Bi City County Health District   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ERROR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RANDOM SAMPLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748310735     PISSN: 14787954     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-4-6     Document Type: Article

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