Measuring misclassification of Covid-19 as garbage codes: Results of investigating 1,365 deaths and implications for vital statistics in Brazil

The purpose of this article is to quantify the amount of misclassification of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) mortality occurring in hospitals and other health facilities in selected cities in Brazil, discuss potential factors contributing to this misclassification, and consider the implicat...

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Main Authors: Elisabeth B. França (Author), Lenice H. Ishitani (Author), Daisy Maria Xavier de Abreu (Author), Renato Azeredo Teixeira (Author), Paulo Roberto Lopes Corrêa (Author), Eliene dos Santos de Jesus (Author), Maria Antonieta Delgado Marinho (Author), Tauá Vieira Bahia (Author), Ana Luiza Bierrenbach (Author), Philip Setel (Author), Fatima Marinho (Author)
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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