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Improving the usefulness of US mortality data: new methods for reclassification of underlying cause of death

BACKGROUND: Mortality data are affected by miscertification of the medical cause of death deaths and changes to cause of death classification systems. We present both mappings of ICD9 and ICD10 to a unified list of causes, and a new statistical model for reducing the impact of misclassification of c...

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Autores principales: Foreman, Kyle J., Naghavi, Mohsen, Ezzati, Majid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27127419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0082-4