Redistribution of heart failure deaths using two methods: linkage of hospital records with death certificate data and multiple causes of death data
Cad. Saúde Pública (Online); 35 (5), 2019
Heart failure is considered a garbage code when assigned as the underlying cause of death. Reassigning garbage codes to plausible causes reduces bias and increases comparability of mortality data. Two redistribution methods were applied to Brazilian data, from 2008 to 2012, for decedents aged 55 years an...