Cause of death in patients with end‐stage renal disease: assessing concordance of death certificates with registry reports

Abstract Objectives:To assess concordance in reporting, in two Australian national datasets, of cause of death of patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD). Methods:For deaths in 1997–99, we compared ‘cause of death’ and ‘primary renal disease’, as coded in the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis...

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Main Authors: Shu Qin Li, Alan Cass, Joan Cunningham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2003-08-01
Series:Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00420.x