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Infectious Disease Surveillance by Medical Examiners and Coroners

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
To the Editor: Medical examiners and coroners (ME/C) investigate ≈20% of all deaths in the United States (1); these include persons who die outside the health care system or die precipitously without a confirmed diagnosis. Surveillance through ME/C offices for unexplained deaths that might have infectious causes can serve as a sentinel system to ...
Dianna M. Blau, Steven C. Clark, Kurt B. Nolte   +2 more
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Identifying Rare Circumstances Preceding Female Firearm Suicides: Validating A Large Language Model Approach

JMIR Mental Health, 2023
BackgroundFirearm suicide has been more prevalent among males, but age-adjusted female firearm suicide rates increased by 20% from 2010 to 2020, outpacing the rate increase among males by about 8 percentage points, and female ...
Weipeng Zhou, Laura C Prater, Evan V Goldstein, Stephen J Mooney   +3 more
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Vital Role of Medical Examiners and Coroners in Organ Transplantation [PDF]

American Journal of Transplantation, 2004
Many people die owing to the shortage of donor organs. Medical examiners and coroners (MEs/Cs) play a vital role in making organs available for potential recipients. Medical examiners'/coroners' case data were collected using a structured confirmatory-recorded methodology for calendar years 2000-01 and were linked and analyzed with donor and transplant
Teresa J, Shafer, Lawrence L, Schkade, Roger W, Evans, Kevin J, O'Connor, William, Reitsma   +4 more
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Accuracy of the national violent death reporting system in identifying unintentional firearm deaths to children by children [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background In assigning manner of death (MOD) for inclusion on death certificates, medical examiners and coroners do not always apply uniform criteria. Previous research indicates surveillance statistics based on death certificates, such as the National ...
Samuel Fischer, Matthew Miller, Catherine Barber, Deborah Azrael   +3 more
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Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Bioterrorism [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
Kurt B. Nolte, Stephen S. Yoon, Carol Pertowski   +2 more
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Suicide and drug toxicity mortality in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: use of medical examiner data for public health in Nova Scotia

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2021
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic and governmental responses have raised concerns about any corresponding rise in suicide and/or drug toxicity mortality due to exacerbations of mental illness, economic issues, changes to drug supply ...
Emily Schleihauf, Matthew J. Bowes
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Deaths from cardiovascular disease involving anticoagulants: a systematic synthesis of coroners’ case reports

BJGP Open, 2022
Background: The global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is forecast to increase, and anticoagulants will remain important medicines for its management.
Ali Anis, Carl Heneghan, Jeffrey K Aronson, Nicholas J DeVito, Georgia C Richards   +4 more
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Understanding unidentified human remains investigations through the United States census data

Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2022
Each year, thousands of unidentified human remains (UHR) cases are reported in the U.S. Technological advances have greatly enhanced the forensic community's capacity and capability to solve UHR cases, but little is known about the extent to which these ...
Ashley L. Rodriguez, Hope M. Smiley-McDonald, M. Stirling Cummings, Sean Wire, Donia Slack, Christopher L. Williams, Kelly A. Keyes, Jeri D. Ropero-Miller   +7 more
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Assessing state level variation in signature authority and cause of death accuracy, 2005–2017

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021
This study utilized a convergent mixed-methods design to examine whether variation in death certificate certifier type predicts the accuracy of cause of death reporting in the US.
J. Dalton Stevens, Scott D. Landes
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Introductory evidence on data management and practice systems of forensic autopsies in sudden and unnatural deaths: a scoping review

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2022
Background The investigation into sudden unexpected and unnatural deaths supports criminal justice, aids in litigation, and provides important information for public health including surveillance, epidemiology, and prevention programs.
Salona Prahladh, Jacqueline van Wyk
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