What can we conclude from death registration? Improved methods for evaluating completeness

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Rajaratnam, Julie Knoll ^a   Marcus, Jacob ^a   Laakso, Thomas ^b   Lopez, Alan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORTALITY; TREND STUDY; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION STUDY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGISTER; STATISTICS;

DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 77951741100     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000262     Document Type: Article

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