Using multiple cause-of-death data to investigate associations and causality between conditions listed on the death certificate

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-108

  Redelings, Matthew D ^a,c   Wise, Matthew ^a,b   Sorvillo, Frank ^a,b  

^a Data Collection and Analysis Unit   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Los Angeles County Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Death certificates; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; MORTALITY;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DECUBITUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SEPTICEMIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; PRESSURE ULCER; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547611037     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm037     Document Type: Article

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