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Use of verbal autopsy in a national health information system: Effects of the investigation of ill-defined causes of death on proportional mortality due to injury in small municipalities in Brazil

BACKGROUND: The Mortality Information System (MIS) in Brazil records mortality data in hospitals and civil registries with the responsibility of compiling underlying cause of death. Despite continuous improvements in the MIS, some areas still maintain a high proportion of deaths assigned to ill-defi...

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Autores principales: França, Elisabeth, Campos, Deise, Guimarães, Mark DC, Souza, Maria de Fátima M
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/PMC3160932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-39