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While
mortality data can serve as proxies for morbidity information about a population,
morbidity data are more helpful in clarifying the reasons for particular trends in
mortality. Also, changes in death rates could be due to changes in morbidity rates or in
case-fatality. Trends in morality data may be artifactual: 1. Reflecting changes in
coding practices (ICD revisions, training of physicians); |