Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey

@article{Burnham2006MortalityAT,
  title={Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey},
  author={Gilbert M Burnham and Riyadh K Lafta and Shannon Doocy and Les Roberts},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2006},
  volume={368},
  pages={1421-1428},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23673934}
}
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