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Review
. 2006 Dec;12 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):ii63-ii64.
doi: 10.1136/ip.2006.013516.

The National Violent Death Reporting System: a new gold standard for the surveillance of violence related deaths?

A Butchart  1
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The National Violent Death Reporting System: a new gold standard for the surveillance of violence related deaths?

A Butchart. Inj Prev. 2006 Dec.

Abstract

From its modest beginnings based on the analysis of death certificates, the National Violent Death Reporting System represents what can be achieved through sustained investment in efforts to measure violence related mortality

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