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What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity
Determining the precise cause of death of an individual has become increasingly difficult as life prolonging treatments mean that many people may die with multiple disorders, any of which, individually or in concert, might have killed them. Yet this problem has been recognised from the very earliest...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596500/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0047-2 |
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description | Determining the precise cause of death of an individual has become increasingly difficult as life prolonging treatments mean that many people may die with multiple disorders, any of which, individually or in concert, might have killed them. Yet this problem has been recognised from the very earliest attempts to develop classifications of diseases. This paper traces the evolution of thinking on death certification and disease classification, describing what has been achieved but also identifying what more needs to be done to advance research and inform policy. |
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spelling | pubmed-45965002015-10-08 What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity McKee, Martin Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Determining the precise cause of death of an individual has become increasingly difficult as life prolonging treatments mean that many people may die with multiple disorders, any of which, individually or in concert, might have killed them. Yet this problem has been recognised from the very earliest attempts to develop classifications of diseases. This paper traces the evolution of thinking on death certification and disease classification, describing what has been achieved but also identifying what more needs to be done to advance research and inform policy. BioMed Central 2015-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4596500/ /pubmed/26448858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0047-2 Text en © McKee. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided 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 Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary McKee, Martin What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity |
title | What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity |
title_full | What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity |
title_fullStr | What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity |
title_full_unstemmed | What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity |
title_short | What do people die from? The challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity |
title_sort | what do people die from? the challenges of measuring disease burden posed by multi-morbidity |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596500/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0047-2 |
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