Redistribution of heart failure as the cause of death: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Redistribution of heart failure as the cause of death: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

BACKGROUND:Heart failure is sometimes incorrectly listed as the underlying cause of death (UCD) on death certificates, thus compromising the accuracy and comparability of mortality statistics. Statistical redistribution of the UCD has been used to examine the effect of misclassification of the UCD a...

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Main Authors: Snyder, Michelle, Love, Shelly-Ann, Sorlie, Paul, Rosamond, Wayne, Antini, Carmen, Metcalf, Patricia, Hardy, Shakia, Suchindran, Chirayath, Shahar, Eyal, Heiss, Gerardo
Other Authors: Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 137 E. Franklin St., Suite 306, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
Language:en
Published: BioMed Central 2014
Subjects:
Cause of death
Coronary heart disease
Death certificates
Heart failure
Mortality
Vital statistics
Ill-defined causes of death
Online Access:Snyder et al. Population Health Metrics 2014, 12:10 http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/12/1/10
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610236
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610236

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Snyder et al. Population Health Metrics 2014, 12:10 http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/12/1/10
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610236
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610236

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