U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Abstract
What is known about the nature of fatal diseases and injuries is based largely upon the tradition of identifying a single condition present at death as the underlying cause. As stated on the U .S. Standard ertificate of Death, the underlying cause is considered to be the disease or injury that initiated events resulting in death (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/DEATHn-03final-ACC.pdf).by Yelena Gorina and Harold Lentzner.1917485
