Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data.

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Published in BMC Palliat Care on February 04, 2009

Authors

Lud F J van der Velden1, Anneke L Francke, Lammert Hingstman, Dick L Willems

Author Affiliations

1: NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Otterstraat 118-124, 3513 CR Utrecht, the Netherlands. l.vandervelden@nivel.nl

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