Using residential aged care data to understand natural deaths
Kathleen Potter
1 * , Christopher Etherton-Beer 2
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1 Ryman Healthcare, Airport Business Park, 92 Russley Road, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
2 University of Western Australia, WA Centre for Health and Aging, WA, Australia.
* Correspondence to: Kathleen.Potter@rymanhealthcare.com
Journal of Primary Health Care 15(2) 184-185 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22146
Published: 23 March 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
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