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Assessing the quality of medical death certification: a case study of concordance between national statistics and results from a medical record review in a regional hospital in the Philippines

Population Health Metrics, 2018
Background Medical certificates of cause of death (MCCOD) issued by hospital physicians are a key input to vital registration systems. Deaths certified by hospital physicians have been implicitly considered to be of high quality, but recent evidence ...
Marilla Lucero, Ian Douglas Riley, Riley H. Hazard, Diozele Sanvictores, Veronica Tallo, Dorothy Gay Marmita Dumaluan, Juanita M. Ugpo, Alan D. Lopez   +7 more
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Characteristics and direct causes of death in severely ill patients admitted to a neurology department

Frontiers in Neurology
IntroductionThe study aimed to analyze the characteristics of patients admitted to the neurology department of a tertiary hospital who subsequently died, focusing on those with high disease severity.Materials and methodsWe conducted a retrospective ...
Da Heui Lee, Seok Young Jeong, Byoung-Soo Shin, Byoung-Soo Shin, Hyun Goo Kang, Hyun Goo Kang   +5 more
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Cause of death for patients with breast cancer: discordance between death certificates and medical files, and impact on survival estimates

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Registration and coding of cause of death is prone to error since determining the exact underlying condition leading directly to death is challenging.
Hava Izci, Tim Tambuyzer, Jessica Vandeven, Jérôme Xicluna, Hans Wildiers, Kevin Punie, Nynke Willers, Eva Oldenburger, Els Van Nieuwenhuysen, Patrick Berteloot, Ann Smeets, Ines Nevelsteen, Anne Deblander, Harlinde De Schutter, Patrick Neven, Geert Silversmit, Freija Verdoodt   +16 more
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Studying the Degree of Diagnostic Agreement between Medical Records and Death Certificates in Loghman Hospital in 2005

مجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2007
Background & Objectives: There is little doubt about the importance of accurate statistics and reliable information in the promoting community health and optimizing health care.
A Akbarzadeh Bagheban, E Maserat, M Hemmati   +2 more
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Fatality from COVID-19 does not affect palliative care duration among patients with advanced cancer: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]

Einstein (São Paulo)
Objective: This study aimed at investigating the extent to which COVID-19-induced fatalities affect the duration of palliative care among patients with advanced cancer.
Rafael Tavares Jomar, Jéssica Thaís Nascimento Marques, Livia Costa de Oliveira, Gelcio Luiz Quintella Mendes, Daianny Arrais de Oliveira da Cunha, Raphael Mendonça Guimarães   +5 more
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Quality of death notification forms in North West Bank/Palestine: a descriptive study

BMC Research Notes, 2017
Background The death notification forms (DNFs) are important documents. Thus, inability to fill it properly by physicians will affect the national mortality report and, consequently, the evidence-based decision making.
Jamal A. S. Qaddumi, Zaher Nazzal, Allam R. S. Yacoup, Mahmoud Mansour   +3 more
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Transition of the morbidity and mortality profile in a municipality in the interior of the Brazilian Amazon

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
: INTRODUCTION: The morbidity and mortality profile in a given region reflects its quality of life and provides tools for improving public health policies in that region.
Gabriel de Deus Vieira, Sergio de Almeida Basano, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo   +2 more
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Consistency Assessment for the Causes of Death as Indicated in the Death Certificates and in ICD Codes

Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2014
Aim: In this study, we evaluated the consistency between the records made in the hospital automation system as well as the causes of death in the death certificates.
Tanzer Korkmaz, Burçin Balaban
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Intrapartum fetal deaths and unexpected neonatal deaths in the Republic of Ireland: 2011 – 2014; a descriptive study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018
Background Intrapartum fetal death, the death of a fetus during labour, is a tragic outcome of pregnancy. The intrapartum death rate of a country is reflective of the care received by mothers and babies in labour and it is through analysing these cases ...
K. McNamara, K. O’Donoghue, R. A. Greene   +2 more
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Consistency between death certificates and hospital records: a study from Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Payesh, 2011
Objective(s): To determine consistency between death certificate and medical records in two hospitals in Kerman, Iran. Methods: Check list was used to collate data on hospital medical records and a questionnaire from viewpoint of certifiers.
Manijeh Ariaei, Eshagh Dortag, Narges Naderi, Rahil Ebrahimi   +3 more
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