Redistributing ill-defined causes of death – a case study from the BURDEN 2020-project in Germany

ConclusionThis is the first comprehensive redistribution of IDD using the German cause of death statistics. Performing a redistribution is necessary for burden of disease analyses, otherwise there would be an underreporting of certain causes of death or large numbers of deaths coded to residual or unspecific codes.
Source: Archives of Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research