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Contemporary accuracy of death certificates for coding prostate cancer as a cause of death: Is relia...

Contemporary accuracy of death certificates for coding prostate cancer as a cause of death: Is relia...

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Contemporary accuracy of death certificates for coding prostate cancer as a cause of death: Is reliance on death certification good enough? A comparison with blinded review by an independent cause of death evaluation committee

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Full title

Contemporary accuracy of death certificates for coding prostate cancer as a cause of death: Is reliance on death certification good enough? A comparison with blinded review by an independent cause of death evaluation committee

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

British journal of cancer, 2016-06, Vol.115 (1), p.90-94

Language

English

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Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

Background:
Accurate cause of death assignment is crucial for prostate cancer epidemiology and trials reporting prostate cancer-specific mortality outcomes.
Methods:
We compared death certificate information with independent cause of death evaluation by an expert committee within a prostate cancer trial (2002–2015).
Results:
Of 1236...

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Full title

Contemporary accuracy of death certificates for coding prostate cancer as a cause of death: Is reliance on death certification good enough? A comparison with blinded review by an independent cause of death evaluation committee

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_swepub_ki_se_504773

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_swepub_ki_se_504773

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ISSN

0007-0920

E-ISSN

1532-1827

DOI

10.1038/bjc.2016.162

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