BMC Endocrine Disorders

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Whether to report diabetes as the underlying cause-of-death? a survey of internists of different sub-specialties

Tsung-Hsueh Lu1*, Ching-Fai Kwok2,3 and Low-Tone Ho2,3

Author Affiliations

1 Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

2 Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

3 Faculty of Medicine and Institutes of Physiology and Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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BMC Endocrine Disorders 2010, 10:13 doi:10.1186/1472-6823-10-13

Published: 23 July 2010

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Questionnaire of Diabetes-Related Cause-of-Death Certification. The questionnaire used in this study.

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