A case study of the impact of inaccurate cause-of-death reporting on health disparity tracking: New York city premature cardiovascular mortality

L.E. Johns, A.M. Madsen, G. Maduro, R. Zimmerman, K. Konty and E. Begier

American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 4, 733-739

Abstract: Objectives: Heart disease death overreporting is problematic in New York City (NYC) and other US jurisdictions. We examined whether overreporting affects the premature (

Keywords: adult; African American; article; cardiovascular disease; Caucasian; cause of death; coding; confidence interval; death certificate; ethnology; female; human; International Classification of Diseases; male; middle aged; mortality; Poisson distribution; statistics; United States, Adult; African Americans; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cause of Death; Clinical Coding; Confidence Intervals; Death Certificates; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; Hospital Mortality; Humans; International Classification of Diseases; Male; Middle Aged; New York City; Poisson Distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300683

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