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Table 3 Possible data sources

From: Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments

• Hospital statistics, including inpatient, outpatient attendances emergency department attendances

• Maternity, birth records and Neonatal Care

• Primary care data

• Disease registers

• Prescriptions

• Population level health surveys

• Communicable disease surveillance

• Published literature

• Grey literature, including government agencies, non-governmental organizations and academia.