A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: The vital statistics performance index

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Phillips, David E ^a   Lozano, Rafael ^a,b   Naghavi, Mohsen ^a   Atkinson, Charles ^a   Gonzalez Medina, Diego ^a   Mikkelsen, Lene ^c   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^c Science Consultant   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causes of death; Civil registration; Data quality; Health information systems; Mortality; Vital registration; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH POLICY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA BASE; HUMAN; ICD-10; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VITAL STATISTICS; VITAL STATISTICS PERFORMANCE INDEX;

EID: 84902653792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-12-14     Document Type: Article

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