CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY IN A COMMUNITY: RESULTS OF A SURVEY IN NEW ORLEANS1

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Oalmann, M. C. (Louisiana State Univ., Medical Center, New Orleans, La. 70112), H. C. McGil, Jr. and Jack P. Strong, Cardiovascular mortality in a community: results of a survey in New Orleans. Amer J Epidem 94: 546–555, 1971.—An objective method for investigating deaths involving interviews with certifying and other attending physicians, abstraction of hospital and coroner's records, and assignment of the cause of death by programmed criteria has been used to evaluate cause of death assignments for 514 white and Negro men in New Orleans. Results of this study indicate that 37% of all deaths and 50% of coronary heart disease deaths might have been assigned to different categories had the practices of the certifying physicians been different.

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