Toward a broader definition of heat-related death: comparison of mortality estimates from medical examiners' classification with those from total death differentials during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago, Illinois.

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Published in Am J Forensic Med Pathol on June 01, 1998

Authors

T Shen1, H L Howe, C Alo, R L Moolenaar

Author Affiliations

1: Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Epidemiologic Studies, Springfield 62761, USA.

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