Reliability of coding causes of death with ICD-10 in Germany
✍ Scribed by Volker Winkler; Jördis J. Ott; Heiko Becher
- Publisher
- SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 215 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1661-8556
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