Accuracy of cause-of-death coding in Taiwan: types of miscoding and effects on mortality statistics

International Journal of Epidemiology - Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 336-343 - 2000
Tsung‐Hsueh Lu1, Meng-Chih Lee, Ming-Chih Chou
1Department of Public Health, Chung Shan Medical and Dental College, Taichung, Taiwan.

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