Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis

• Main Authors: Rodrigo Tzovenos Starosta (Author), Raquel Rivero (Author), Francine Hehn de Oliveira (Author), Eron Lopes (Author), Marcelle Reesink Cerski (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Death certificate inaccuracy is of major concern both in the public health domain and in individual health care, since it may yield untruthful data on the incidence, prevalence, and lethality of medical entities, and may hamper prophylactic measures among those who share, with the deceased, the comm...