Mortality statistics in Belgium 1980-1997 quality of coding

Archives of Public Health

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 127-148

  Aelvoet, Willem ^a,c   Molenberghs, G ^b   van Sprundel, M ^c  

^a Federal Department of Health Food Chain Safety and Environment   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coding; Death certificates; Editing; Mortality statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447292365     PISSN: 07787367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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