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Development of a New Electronic Death Certificate and Death Management Module Integrated Into the Health Information System of a Tertiary Hospital in Mali: Implementation Report

JMIR Medical Informatics
BackgroundDeath certification provides reliable epidemiological data that are essential for public health decision-making. Implementing an electronic death certificate improves data quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
Mahmoud Cissé, Mahamoudane Niang, Abdrahamane Anne, Mariam Sidibé, Dramane Traoré, Abdoulaye Traoré, Idrissa Traoré, Cheick Oumar Bagayoko   +7 more
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Digital transformation of mortality reporting using an ICD-11 integrated death certificate system in Suriname [PDF]

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
The Ministry of Health of Suriname has replaced the outdated 1958 paper-based death certificate with an adapted digital version based on the World Health Organization international form of Medical Certificate of Cause of Death, integrated with the ...
Jerry Toelsie, Richard Mendes, Ritesh Dhanpat, Radjesh Ori, Rosmond Adams, Coen van Gool, Carine Alsokhn, Katri Kontio, and Yafflo Ouattara   +8 more
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Factors associated with reporting multiple causes of death [PDF]

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2005
Background There is analytical potential for multiple cause of death data collected from death certificates. This study examines relationships of multiple causes of death as a function of factors available on the death certificate (demographics of ...
Oswald John, Huang Jinzhou, Wall Melanie M, McCullen Diane   +3 more
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Death certificate: admitting uncertainty [PDF]

Autopsy and Case Reports, 2018
Luiz Otávio Savassi Rocha
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COVID-19 as cause of death: a bridge coding study [PDF]

GMS Infectious Diseases
Background: The number of COVID-19 deaths is an important measure for the impact of the pandemic. However, estimates differ and fuel the debate on COVID-19 as legitimate cause of death.
Peter Harteloh
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The association between taking a death certificate course and practical knowledge about death certificate among Saudi medical students

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, Norah AlHogail, Saud Alaqeel, Khayyal Alderaan, Abdulla Al-hawamdeh, Hani Alhudhaif   +5 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, Sun Hyu Kim, Hyeji Lee, Byungho Choi   +3 more
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Pediatric Death Certification [PDF]

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1998
To determine location, manner, and physician certifier of pediatric deaths.A descriptive study of death certificate information for all child deaths (aged birth through 17 years) for the years 1995 and 1996.Urban county of more than 780,000 population.Field of specialty of physician certifiers, location of death, and category of deaths certified by the
K A, Bowen, W N, Marshall
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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, Pei-Chen Lee, Li-Jung Elizabeth Ku, Yu Sun, Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Muhammad Atoillah Isfandiari, Chung-Yi Li   +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, Shinya Suezaki, Megumi Okamoto, Yasuo Kuwahara, Masanori Okui, Akiyoshi Nishimura, Hirono Takabayashi   +6 more
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