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Our primary concern is with the reliance on information ascertained from death certificates to determine the timing of death and the specific underlying cause. The rate of misclassification is high when this information is not supplemented with data from hospital records, autopsies, or interviews with next of kin. Kuller et al.⁴ reported that even when the probability of sudden death as ascertained from the death certificate was high, half of deaths were classified as nonsudden after all available information was considered. Death certificates are also less accurate than autopsies with respect to the determination of the specific cause within the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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