Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification

BACKGROUND: In Thailand, 35% of all deaths occur in hospitals, and the cause of death is medically certified by attending physicians. About 15% of hospital deaths are registered with nonspecific diagnoses, despite the potential for greater accuracy using information available from medical records. F...

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Autores principales: Pattaraarchachai, Junya, Rao, Chalapati, Polprasert, Warangkana, Porapakkham, Yawarat, Pao-in, Wansa, Singwerathum, Noppcha, Lopez, Alan D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20482759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-8-12

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20482759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-8-12

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