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Comment
. 2017 Jul;110(7):264-266.
doi: 10.1177/0141076817703865.

Mortality in England - erroneous attribution of excess winter deaths to underlying trend

Eugene Milne  1
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Mortality in England - erroneous attribution of excess winter deaths to underlying trend

Eugene Milne. J R Soc Med. 2017 Jul.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Age-standardised death rate per 100,000 population, England and Wales, 1980–2015.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Directly standardised mortality rate per 100,000 population, England and Wales 1995–2015 compared with crude mortality rate for the same period.
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Comment in

  • Response to Jones and Milne.
    Hiam L, Dorling D, Harrison D, McKee M. Hiam L, et al. J R Soc Med. 2017 Jul;110(7):266-268. doi: 10.1177/0141076817703881. J R Soc Med. 2017. PMID: 28718384 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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