Improving the quality of cause of death data for public health policy: are all ‘garbage’ codes equally problematic?
Open Access
- 9 March 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medicine
- Vol. 18 (1), 1-3
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01525-w
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