Quality of cause-of-death reporting using ICD-10 drowning codes: A descriptive study of 69 countries

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^a   Lunetta, Philippe ^b   Walker, Sue ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; CODING; DROWNING; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MORTALITY; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL CODING; DROWNING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77950663439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-30     Document Type: Article

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