Unexplained mortality during the US COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective analysis of death certificate data and critical assessment of excess death calculations
Objectives Cause-of-death discrepancies are common in respiratory illness-related mortality. A standard epidemiological metric, excess all-cause death, is unaffected by these discrepancies but provides no actionable policy information when increased all-cause mortality is unexplained by reported spe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2021-11-01
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| Series: | BMJ Open |
| Online Access: | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/11/e050361.full |