Comparison of two sources of U.S. Air Force injury mortality data.
Is the military's casualty (mortality) reporting system a reliable surrogate for International Classification of Diseases-coded death certificate information? To answer this question, the investigators compare official casualty data to the Air Force Mortality Registry for injury-related deaths occur...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 168; no. 10; pp. 792 - 797 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2003
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