Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Incomplete information on death certificates makes recorded cause-of-death data less useful for public health monitoring and planning. Certifying physicians sometimes list only the mode of death without indicating the underlying dise...

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Main Authors: Shibuya Kenji, King Gary, Stevens Gretchen A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-04-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
Online Access:http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/8/1/6