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Using death certificate data to study place of death in 9 European countries: opportunities and weaknesses

Joachim Cohen1*, Johan Bilsen1,2, Guido Miccinesi3, Rurik Löfmark4, Julia Addington-Hall5, Stein Kaasa6, Michael Norup7, Gerrit van der Wal8 and Luc Deliens1,8

Author Affiliations

1 End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

2 Centre for Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

3 Centre for Study and Prevention of Cancer, Florence, Italy

4 Centre for Bioethics, LIME, Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Stockholm Sweden

5 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Southampton University, UK

6 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway

7 Department of Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

8 VU University Medical Center, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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BMC Public Health 2007, 7:283 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-283

Published: 8 October 2007

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Additional File 1:

Appendix DCs of all countries. This additional file presents the death certificate forms used to certify deaths (at the time of the study) in Belgium, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, England and Wales, and Scotland.

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