Do medical certificates of stillbirth provide accurate and useful information regarding the cause of death?

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-123

  Cockerill, Ruth ^a   Whitworth, Melissa K ^a   Heazell, Alexander E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accuracy; causal factors; classification; medical certificate of stillbirths; validity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ERROR; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; STILLBIRTH CERTIFICATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84857236027     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2011.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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