Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method.
Cause-of-death data for many developing countries are not available. Information on deaths in hospital by cause is available in many low- and middle-income countries but is not a representative sample of deaths in the population. We propose a method to estimate population cause-specific mortality fr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-11-01
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| Series: | PLoS Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2080647?pdf=render |