Trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an English population 1979–1999

In compiling official mortality statistics, rules for selecting the underlying cause of death have changed twice in the last 20 years in England. Mortality statistics for most types of cancer were not greatly affected, but there were significant effects on coding for cancers of colon, liver, breast,...

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Autores principales: Goldacre, M J, Duncan, M E, Cook-Mozaffari, P, Griffith, M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2004
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14997200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601633
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description In compiling official mortality statistics, rules for selecting the underlying cause of death have changed twice in the last 20 years in England. Mortality statistics for most types of cancer were not greatly affected, but there were significant effects on coding for cancers of colon, liver, breast, prostate, testis and bladder, and for lymphoma and leukaemia.
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spelling pubmed-24096132009-09-10 Trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an English population 1979–1999 Goldacre, M J Duncan, M E Cook-Mozaffari, P Griffith, M Br J Cancer Short Communication In compiling official mortality statistics, rules for selecting the underlying cause of death have changed twice in the last 20 years in England. Mortality statistics for most types of cancer were not greatly affected, but there were significant effects on coding for cancers of colon, liver, breast, prostate, testis and bladder, and for lymphoma and leukaemia. Nature Publishing Group 2004-03-08 2004-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2409613/ /pubmed/14997200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601633 Text en Copyright © 2004 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title Trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an English population 1979–1999
title_full Trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an English population 1979–1999
title_fullStr Trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an English population 1979–1999
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title_short Trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an English population 1979–1999
title_sort trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an english population 1979–1999
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409613/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601633
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