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Assessing quality of medical death certification: Concordance between gold standard diagnosis and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals

BACKGROUND: In Mexico, the vital registration system relies on information collected from death certificates to generate official mortality figures. Although the death certificate has high coverage across the country, there is little information regarding its validity. The objective of this study wa...

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Autores principales: Hernández, Bernardo, Ramírez-Villalobos, Dolores, Romero, Minerva, Gómez, Sara, Atkinson, Charles, Lozano, Rafael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-38