State differences in the reporting of diabetes-related incorrect cause-of-death causal sequences on death certificates

Diabetes Care

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1572-1574

  Cheng, Tain Junn ^a,b,c   Tsung Hsueh, Lu ^d   Kawachi, Ichiro ^e  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ICD-10; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; HAWAII; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MARYLAND; NEVADA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84862858428     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-2156     Document Type: Article

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