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Cause of death coding in Switzerland: evaluation based on a nationwide individual linkage of mortality and hospital in-patient records

BACKGROUND: Cause of death statistics are an important tool for quality control of the health care system. Their reliability, however, is controversial. Comparing death certificates with their corresponding medical records is implemented only occasionally but may point to quality problems. We aimed...

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Autores principales: Zellweger, Ueli, Junker, Christoph, Bopp, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6397486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30823920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-019-0182-z