What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness

Abstract

There continues to be a role for partial vital registration data in measuring adult mortality levels and trends, but such results should only be interpreted alongside all other data sources on adult mortality and the uncertainty of the resulting levels, trends, and age-patterns of adult death considered. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

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Completeness (order theory)StatisticsPopulationComputer scienceConfidence intervalRange (aeronautics)EconometricsMedicineMathematics

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Year: 2010
Type: article
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Pages: e1000262-e1000262
Citations: 126
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                                    Christopher J L Murray, 
                                
                                    Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, 
                                
                                    Jacob Rader Marcus
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2010). 
                            What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness. 
                            PLoS Medicine
                            , 7
                            (4)
                            , e1000262-e1000262.
                            https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000262
                        

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000262