Goldacre M J, Duncan M E, Cook-Mozaffari P, Griffith M
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.
Br J Cancer. 2004 Mar 8;90(5):1019-21. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601633.
In compiling official mortality statistics, rules for selecting the underlying cause of death have changed twice in the last 20 years in England. Mortality statistics for most types of cancer were not greatly affected, but there were significant effects on coding for cancers of colon, liver, breast, prostate, testis and bladder, and for lymphoma and leukaemia.
在编制官方死亡率统计数据时，英格兰在过去20年里选择根本死因的规则已更改了两次。大多数癌症类型的死亡率统计数据受影响不大，但对结肠癌、肝癌、乳腺癌、前列腺癌、睾丸癌和膀胱癌以及淋巴瘤和白血病的编码有显著影响。
