Mortality rates for common respiratory diseases in an English population 1979-1998: artefact and substantive trends.
We analysed a mortality database in which all causes of death on each death certificate were coded, as well as underlying cause, to study trends from 1979 to 1998. Multiple-cause-coded death rates for pneumonia and acute bronchitis fell steadily and consistently. There were complementary rises and f...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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