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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Main Authors: Goldacre, M, Duncan, M, Cook-Mozaffari, P, Neil, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004