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DEATH CERTIFICATION. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1905
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NoelA. Humphreys
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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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" DEATH CERTIFICATION." [PDF]

The Lancet, 1893
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Ross Paterson, A., Gilleran, E. J.
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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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Cause of death for patients with breast cancer: discordance between death certificates and medical files, and impact on survival estimates. [PDF]

Arch 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.
Izci H, Tambuyzer T, Vandeven J, Xicluna J, Wildiers H, Punie K, Willers N, Oldenburger E, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, Berteloot P, Smeets A, Nevelsteen I, Deblander A, De Schutter H, Neven P, Silversmit G, Verdoodt F.   +16 more
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Autopsy histology data suggest cirrhosis is frequently under-reported on death certificates. [PDF]

Hepatol Commun, 2023
Background:. Cirrhosis may be asymptomatic yet contribute to ill health. Here, we studied how often cirrhosis is discovered first at an autopsy. We also examined how frequent this finding was not reported on formal death certificates. Methods:.
Hagström H, Simon TG, Söderling J, Ludvigsson JF.   +3 more
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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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Misclassification of causes of death among a small all-autopsied group of former nuclear workers: Death certificates vs. autopsy reports. [PDF]

PLoS One
The U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries performs autopsies on each of its deceased Registrants as a part of its mission to follow up occupationally-exposed individuals.
McComish SL, Liu X, Martinez FT, Zhou JY, Tolmachev SY.   +4 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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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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