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Death certificate completion skills of hospital physicians in a developing country. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2013 BackgroundDeath 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.
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Death Certificate-Based ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for COVID-19 Mortality Surveillance - United States, January-December 2020. [PDF]
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2021 Approximately 375,000 deaths during 2020 were attributed to COVID-19 on death certificates reported to CDC (1). Concerns have been raised that some deaths are being improperly attributed to COVID-19 (2).
Gundlapalli AV +6 more
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Risk factors for hospital death in conditions needing palliative care: Nationwide population-based death certificate study. [PDF]
Palliat Med, 2018 Background: Most people would prefer to die at home as opposed to hospital; therefore, understanding mortality patterns by place of death is essential for health resources allocation.
Gomes B +6 more
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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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Differences in place of death between lung cancer and COPD patients: a 14-country study using death certificate data. [PDF]
NPJ Prim Care Respir Med, 2017 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer are leading causes of death with comparable symptoms at the end of life. Cross-national comparisons of place of death, as an important outcome of terminal care, between people dying from chronic ...
Cohen J +17 more
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Publication of Death Certificates [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1916 To the Editor: —A physician may not reveal the nature of his patient's illness during the patient's life without danger of legal penalty. But when the patient dies, the physician is required to give the cause of death in a certificate, which at once becomes a public document.
William House
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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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BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Accurate and timely data on cause of death are critically important for guiding health programs and policies. Deaths certified by doctors are implicitly considered to be reliable and accurate, yet the quality of information provided in the ...
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