Death certificates, natural death, and alcohol. The problem of underreporting.
Previous studies have identified an apparent underreporting of alcohol-related natural deaths on death certificates. This survey consists of a review of death certificates in one urban county, and provides further evidence that alcohol-caused natural deaths are underreported by physicians who sign death certificates.
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Medical Examiner's Office, Fulton County, Georgia.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000401:mortality*; D003644:Death Certificates; D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans