Improving the usefulness of mortality data: reclassification of ill-defined causes based on medical records and home interviews in Brazil - Fran ça EB, Ishitani LH, Teixeira RA, Cunha CCD, Marinho MF.

INTRODUCTION: Brazil presented a high proportion of ill-defined causes of death (IDCD) in 2000, compromising accurate cause-of-death analysis. OBJECTIVE: To analyze specific underlying causes for deaths originally assigned as IDCD in the Mortality ...
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