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Comment
. 2018 Feb;111(2):40-41.
doi: 10.1177/0141076817743075.

Response to articles on mortality in England and Wales

Allan Baker  1 , Faith Ege  1 , Justine Fitzpatrick  1 , John Newton  1
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Response to articles on mortality in England and Wales

Allan Baker et al. J R Soc Med. 2018 Feb.
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Figure 1.
Number of deaths and age-standardised mortality rate, England, 2001–2016. Source: Office for National Statistics.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Primary diagnosis of last emergency admission if within one week of death or died in hospital, by month of death, aged 75+ years. *The percentage of total deaths of those aged 75 years and above, whose death record could be linked to a previous hospital admission. Only 1% of death records could not be linked to a previous hospital admission. Source: Public Health England analysis of data from linked file of Hospital Episode Statistics and death registrations (NHS Digital/ONS).
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