Reliability of cause of death coding: an international comparison

• Main Authors: Carmen Antini (Author), Danuta Rajs (Author), María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada (Author), Boris Andrés Lucero Mondaca (Author), Gerardo Heiss (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study evaluates the agreement of nosologic coding of cardiovascular causes of death between a Chilean coder and one in the United States, in a stratified random sample of death certificates of persons aged ≥ 60, issued in 2008 in the Valparaíso and Metropolitan regions, Chile. All causes of de...