Impact of unlinked deaths and coding changes on mortality trends in the Swiss National Cohort

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schmidlin, Kurt ^a   Clough Gorr, Kerri M ^a,b,c   Spoerri, Adrian ^a   Egger, Matthias ^a,d   Zwahlen, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Mortality; Record linkage; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENSUSES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871744438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-1     Document Type: Article

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