The democratic fallacy in matters of clinical opinion: Implications for analysing cause-of-death data

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Byass, Peter ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

EID: 78651113480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-8-1     Document Type: Review

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