Improving the usefulness of mortality data: reclassification of ill-defined causes based on medical records and home interviews in Brazil

• Main Authors: Elisabeth Barboza França (Author), Lenice Harumi Ishitani (Author), Renato Azeredo Teixeira (Author), Carolina Cândida da Cunha (Author), Maria Fatima Marinho (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: Brazil presented a high proportion of ill-defined causes of death (IDCD) in 2000, compromising accurate cause-of-death analysis. Objective: To analyze specific underlying causes for deaths originally assigned as IDCD in the Mortality Information System (SIM - Sistema de Inform...