Trends in mortality rates for death-certificate-coded diabetes mellitus in an English population 1979-99.
AIMS: Mortality statistics have customarily been coded and analysed using only one underlying cause of death. Rules for selecting the underlying cause, when more than one cause is certified on a death certificate, have changed twice in England over the past 20 years. We used data from death certific...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2004
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