Consistency between education reported in health survey and recorded in death certificate [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2007 Background Education level is one indicator of socioeconomic position which, in several countries including South Korea, is provided though death certificate data.
Lynch John W +2 more
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Determining Mortality Rates Attributable to Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 To determine accuracy of measures of deaths attributable to Clostridium difficile infection, we compared 3 measures for 2007–2008 in Ontario, Canada: death certificate; death within 30 days of infection; and panel review.
Susy S. Hota +5 more
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Death certificate: admitting uncertainty [PDF]
Autopsy and Case Reports, 2018 Luiz Otávio Savassi Rocha
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Death certificate completion skills of hospital physicians in a developing country. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2013 Background Death certificates (DC) can provide valuable health status data regarding disease incidence, prevalence and mortality in a community. It can guide local health policy and help in setting priorities.
Haque AS +4 more
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Quality in Sport, 2022 In Saudi Arabia, family members, general practitioners, morticians, or police officer, who are eligible to request autopsies, refrain from doing so to expedite the burial of the deceased.
Walery Zukow +5 more
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Estimating mortality attributable to alcohol or tobacco – a cohort study from Germany [PDF]
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and PolicyBackground Little is known about mortality from four disorder combinations: fully attributable to alcohol or tobacco, partly attributable to both alcohol and tobacco, to tobacco only, to alcohol only.
Ulrich John +3 more
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Analysis of Errors on Death Certificate for Trauma Related Death [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2019 Purpose This study was to investigate errors of death certificate (DC) issued for patients with trauma. Methods A retrospective review for DC issued after death related to trauma at a training hospital trauma center was conducted.
Jun Hyuk Chang +3 more
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Overall and cause-specific mortality in patients with dementia: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES OBJECTIVES: Information regarding the underlying causes of death (UCODs) and standardized mortality ratio (SMR) of dementia is instrumental in formulating medical strategies to prolong life in persons with dementia (PWD).
Chia-Lun Kuo +6 more
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Anticipated deaths with physician care (mitori) at home in one town in Japan: A preliminary report
Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2023 Background There are few reports on the numbers of anticipated deaths (mitori [看取り]) at home in Japan. Method We used the Japanese death certificate system (shiboukohyou [死亡小票]) for Toyono town citizens who died between 2020 and 2022 and judged a death ...
Nobuyuki Kajiwara +6 more
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Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 Objective. This paper assesses the availability and quality of death certificate data in Latin America and the feasibility of using these data to study place of death and associated factors. Methods.
Katja Seitz +18 more
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