Titre : | Underestimation of cardiovascular disease mortality among Maine American Indians : The role of procedural and data errors. (2005) |
Auteurs : | Judith-M GRABER ; Brenda-E CORKUM ; Paul-L KUEHNERT ; SONNENFELD (Nancy) : USA. University of Southern Maine. Portland. ; Bureau of Health. Department of Human Services. Augusta. ME. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 95, n° 5, 2005) |
Pagination : | 827-830 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Appareil circulatoire [pathologie] ; Mortalité ; Epidémiologie ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Ethnie ; Homme ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS T0mR0xaO. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. We collaborated with Maine American Indian tribes to evaluate racial coding on death certificates and the effects of coding errors on estimation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Lists of tribal decedents were matched to death certificates ; 38.5% were misclassified (17.8% coding errors ; 20.7% data entry errors). After errors were corrected, CVD mortality trends were similar between American Indians and all Maine residents. Racial misclassification occurred during a period when budget cuts had prompted procedural changes. |