Underlying versus multiple causes of dea
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J. Michael Wrigley; Charles B. Nam
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Article
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1987
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Springer
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English
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The conventional approach to measuring the medical cause of death in mortality analysis bases death on a single, underlying cause. An alternative approach, which makes use of all of the medical conditions cited by a physician on the death certificate and treats them in a multiplecause framework, is