Impact of misclassification on measures of cardiovascular disease mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Ardeshir Khosravi (Author), Chalapati Rao (Author), Mohsen Naghavi (Author), Richard Taylor (Author), Nahid Jafari (Author), Alan D Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the extent and pattern of misclassification of death from non-specific diagnoses emanating from the Iranian death registration system, and to correct the data for health policy and planning. METHODS: Detailed medical records for 1426 hospital deaths classified to seven ill-defin...