Changes in the quality of cause-of-death statistics in Brazil: garbage codes among registered deaths in 1996-2016

• Main Authors: Elisabeth França (Author), Lenice Harumi Ishitani (Author), Renato Teixeira (Author), Bruce B. Duncan (Author), Fatima Marinho (Author), Mohsen Naghavi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Registered causes in vital statistics classified as garbage codes (GC) are considered indicators of quality of cause-of-death data. Our aim was to describe temporal changes in this quality in Brazil, and the leading GCs according to levels assembled for the Global Burden of Disea...