Improving the usefulness of US mortality data: New methods for reclassification of underlying cause of death

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Foreman, Kyle J ^a   Naghavi, Mohsen ^b   Ezzati, Majid ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of death certification; Garbage codes; Statistical cause of death models; Vital registration data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ICD-10; ICD-9; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84965070348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0082-4     Document Type: Article

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