Effect of cause-of-death training on agreement between hospital discharge diagnoses and cause of death reported, inpatient hospital deaths, New York city, 2008-2010

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ong, Paulina ^a   Gambatese, Melissa ^a   Begier, Elizabeth ^a   Zimmerman, Regina ^a   Soto, Antonio ^a   Madsen, Ann ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW YORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84922345285     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd12.140299     Document Type: Article

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