Author Details Errors in death certificates in a rural area of Greece Paraskevi Katsakiori1 MSc, General practitioner, vkatsak@med.upatras.gr Eugenia Panagiotopoulou2 MD, Doctor, panagiotopoulou@med.upatras.gr George Sakellaropoulos3 PhD, Lecturer of medical physics, gsak@med.upatras.gr Athanasia Papazafiropoulou4 MD, Pathologist, pathan@ath.forthnet.gr Marina Kardara5 PhD, General practitioner, marina_kardara@yahoo.com 1 University Hospital of Patras, Rion, Greece. 2 University Hospital of Patras, Greece,. 3 School of Health Sciences, University of Patras, GR 265 00, Greece. 4 General Hospital of Nikea, Piraeus, Greece. 5 Health Centre of Erymantheia, Erymantheia, Achaia, Greece. Correspondence: P Katsakiori, Epidaurou 4A, 26442 Patras, Greece  Author contribution: Paraskevi F Katsakiori: literature review, wrote the first draft, input data, statistical analysis. Eugenia C Panagiotopoulou: collected data. George C Sakellaropoulos: original concept, devised survey tool, contributed to drafts, supervised data collection. Citation: Katsakiori PF, Panagiotopoulou EC, Sakellaropoulos GC, Papazafiropoulou A, Kardara M.  Errors in death certificates in a rural area of Greece. Rural and Remote Health 7 (online), 2007: no. 822. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 13 July 2007 Revised: 12 October 2007 Accepted: 6 December 2007