Physician's manual reporting underestimates mortality: evidence from a population-based HIV/AIDS treatment program
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In clinical and cohort research, mortality estimates are often derived from manual reports generated by physicians or electronic reports from vital event registries. We examined the rate of underreporting of deaths by manual methods...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-10-01
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| Series: | BMC Public Health |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/642 |