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The association between taking a death certificate course and practical knowledge about death certificate among Saudi medical students

Journal of Education, Health and 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.
Khaldoon Aljerian, Norah AlHogail, Saud Alaqeel, Khayyal Alderaan, Abdulla Al-hawamdeh, Hani Alhudhaif   +5 more
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Evaluating an educational intervention to improve the accuracy of death certification among trainees from various specialties [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2007
Background The inaccuracy of death certification can lead to the misallocation of resources in health care programs and research. We evaluated the rate of errors in the completion of death certificates among medical residents from various specialties ...
Villar Jesús, Pérez-Méndez Lina
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Death Certification: An Interactive Teaching Session

MedEdPORTAL, 2023
Introduction Documentation of the cause of death is important for local and national epidemiology as well as for research and public health funding allocation.
James H. Wykowski, Andrew M. Luks, Gabrielle Berger, Desiree A. Marshall   +3 more
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Concordance between the underlying causes of death on death certificates written by three emergency physicians [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2019
Objective This study was conducted to evaluate the concordance between the underlying causes of death (UCOD) on the death certificates written by three emergency physicians (EPs).
Hyeji Lee, Sun Hyu Kim, Byungho Choi, Minsu Ock, Eun Ji Park   +4 more
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Reporting Down syndrome on the death certificate for Alzheimer disease/unspecified dementia deaths

PLoS ONE, 2023
Background Death certificates are crucial for understanding population health trends including the burden of disease mortality. Accurate reporting of causes of death on these records is necessary in order to implement adequate public health policies and ...
Scott D. Landes, Julia M. Finan, Margaret A. Turk   +2 more
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Automated coding and selection of causes of death in Peru: a descriptive study, 2016-2019 [PDF]

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, 2023
Objective: to describe software performance in the automatic selection of the underlying cause of death in Peru, between 2016 and 2019. Methods: this was a descriptive study on the software performance in the automated selection of the underlying ...
Javier Vargas-Herrera, Janet Miki, Liliana López Wong, Jorge Miranda Monzón, Rodolfo Villanueva   +4 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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Cause of death affects racial classification on death certificates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Recent research suggests racial classification is responsive to social stereotypes, but how this affects racial classification in national vital statistics is unknown.
Andrew Noymer, Andrew M Penner, Aliya Saperstein   +2 more
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Community Perceptions in the Management of Birth Certificates and Death Certificates in the Department of Population and Civil Registry of West Aceh Regency

Jurnal Public Policy, 2021
This study aims to determine how public perceptions are and the factors that influence community perceptions in the service of obtaining birth certificates and death certificates at the Department of Population and Civil Registry of West Aceh Regency ...
Nurul Badria Ulfa, Ikhsan Ikhsan, Nodi Marefanda   +2 more
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Underreporting of Death Certification in a University Teaching Hospital – A Hospital Based Study in Ireland

International Journal of Gerontology, 2018
Summary: Background: Death certificates are frequently used as the source for epidemiological data on the prevalence of diseases. We postulated that comorbidities may be under-documented, particularly in older patients with multiple coexisting ...
G. Mulkerrin, D. Ní Chaoimh, C. MacLoughlin, S.T. O'Keeffe, E. Mulkerrin   +4 more
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