Quality of cause-of-death data in Brazil: Garbage codes among registered deaths in 2000 and 2015

• Main Authors: Renato Azeredo Teixeira (Author), Mohsen Naghavi (Author), Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães (Author), Lenice Harumi Ishitani (Author), Elizabeth Barboza França (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT Introduction: reliability of mortality data is essential for health assessment and planning. In Brazil, a high proportion of deaths is attributed to causes that should not be considered as underlying causes of deaths, named garbage codes (GC). To tackle this issue, in 2005, the Brazilian Mi...