Underreporting of mortality from head and neck carcinoma: Our experience at a tertiary head and neck cancer unit

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 103-104

  Khanna, A ^a   Mansuri, S ^a   Mortimore, S ^a   De, M ^a   Elliott, R ^a   Sharp, J ^a  

^a ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DYING; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TERTIARY HEALTHCARE;

EID: 84874068195     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coa.12047     Document Type: Letter

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