State differences in the reporting of 'unspecified stroke' on death certificates: Implications for improvement

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3336-3342

  Cheng, Tain Junn ^a,b,c   Chang, Chia Yu ^a,d   Lin, Ching Yih ^a,d   Ke, Der Shin ^e   Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^f   Kawachi, Ichiro ^g  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b Sustainable Environment Research Center   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e CHIA YI CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Death certificate; International Classification of Diseases (ICD); Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CODING; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; ICD-10; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; UNSPECIFIED STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870954794     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.670877     Document Type: Article

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