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Estimating Population Cause-Specific Mortality Fractions from in-Hospital Mortality: Validation of a New Method

BACKGROUND: Cause-of-death data for many developing countries are not available. Information on deaths in hospital by cause is available in many low- and middle-income countries but is not a representative sample of deaths in the population. We propose a method to estimate population cause-specific...

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Autores principales: Murray, Christopher J. L, Lopez, Alan D, Barofsky, Jeremy T, Bryson-Cahn, Chloe, Lozano, Rafael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2080647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18031195
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040326