Assessing quality of medical death certification: Concordance between gold standard diagnosis and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals

• Main Authors: Atkinson Charles (Author), Gómez Sara (Author), Romero Minerva (Author), Ramírez-Villalobos Dolores (Author), Hernández Bernardo (Author), Lozano Rafael (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In Mexico, the vital registration system relies on information collected from death certificates to generate official mortality figures. Although the death certificate has high coverage across the country, there is little information...