Comparability of mortality statistics for the seventh and eighth revisions of the International classification of diseases, United States

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  It has been the practice to revise the International Classification of Diseases every 10 years since 1900 to keep abreast of medical knowledge. Each decennial revision has produced breaks in the comparability of cause-of-death statistics. The degree of discontinuity resulting from the introduction of the Eighth Revision, used beginning with data year 1968, has been considerable for a number of causes of death. An adequate presentation of mortality trends without reference to these discontinuities is impossible.
• Content Notes:
  A. Joan Klebba, and Alice B. Dolman. ; Includes bibliographical references.
• Subjects:
  • Classification
  • International Classification of Diseases
  • Mortality
  • Statistics as Topic
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  print; vi, 93 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  66
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13078/cdc_13078_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.41 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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