Ill-defined and multiple causes on death certificates – A study of misclassification in mortality statistics
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 15 (2), 141-148
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007570405888
Abstract
Biases can distort, limit or inhibit the value of mortality data as an epidemiological resource. From 9500 deaths occurring in Naples␣(Italy) during 1994, a random sample of 372 death certificates...Keywords
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