Mortality and multiple causes of death in systemic lupus erythematosus - Role of the death certificate

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 458-460

  Abu Shakra, Mahmoud ^a   Novack, Victor ^b  

^a Rheumatic Diseases Unit   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIFE TABLE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEPTICEMIA; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOPHILIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS;

EID: 84857807683     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.111556     Document Type: Editorial

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