Changes in the quality of cause-of-death statistics in Brazil: garbage codes among registered deaths in 1996–2016
Abstract Background Registered causes in vital statistics classified as garbage codes (GC) are considered indicators of quality of cause-of-death data. Our aim was to describe temporal changes in this quality in Brazil, and the leading GCs according to levels assembled for the Global Burden of Disea...
Main Authors: | Elisabeth França, Lenice Harumi Ishitani, Renato Teixeira, Bruce B. Duncan, Fatima Marinho, Mohsen Naghavi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-09-01
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Series: | Population Health Metrics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12963-020-00221-4 |
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