TY - JOUR
T1 - Undiagnosed Diseases in an Aging Population
T2 - Pulmonary Embolism and Bronchopneumonia
AU - Rossman, Isadore
AU - Rodstein, Manuel
AU - Bornstein, Alfred
PY - 1974/3
Y1 - 1974/3
N2 - Important subgroups of the older population are in settings in which cause of death is difficult to ascertain. An autopsy series of an elderly, chronically ill, institutionalized population indicates a 22.8% death rate due primarily to bronchopneumonia, with 20% of diagnoses missed, and 6.4% due to pulmonary embolism, with 50% missed. In a similar age group dying in the hospitals of New York, death rates ascribed to bronchopneumonia were 8.0%, and 2.0% to pulmonary embolism. Present methods of mortality coding would also reduce reporting of the true extent of these two causes of death.
AB - Important subgroups of the older population are in settings in which cause of death is difficult to ascertain. An autopsy series of an elderly, chronically ill, institutionalized population indicates a 22.8% death rate due primarily to bronchopneumonia, with 20% of diagnoses missed, and 6.4% due to pulmonary embolism, with 50% missed. In a similar age group dying in the hospitals of New York, death rates ascribed to bronchopneumonia were 8.0%, and 2.0% to pulmonary embolism. Present methods of mortality coding would also reduce reporting of the true extent of these two causes of death.
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U2 - 10.1001/archinte.1974.00320150040003
DO - 10.1001/archinte.1974.00320150040003
M3 - Article
C2 - 4283736
AN - SCOPUS:0016213120
SN - 0003-9926
VL - 133
SP - 366
EP - 369
JO - Archives of Internal Medicine
JF - Archives of Internal Medicine
IS - 3
ER -