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The Role of COVID-19 in the Death of SARS-CoV-2-Positive Patients: A Study Based on Death Certificates. [PDF]

J Clin Med, 2020
Background: Death certificates are considered the most reliable source of information to compare cause-specific mortality across countries. The aim of the present study was to examine death certificates of persons who tested positive for severe acute ...
Grippo F, Navarra S, Orsi C, Manno V, Grande E, Crialesi R, Frova L, Marchetti S, Pappagallo M, Simeoni S, Di Pasquale L, Carinci A, Donfrancesco C, Lo Noce C, Palmieri L, Onder G, Minelli G, Italian National Institute of Health Covid-Mortality Group.   +17 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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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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Cause of death for patients with breast cancer: discordance between death certificates and medical files, and impact on survival estimates [PDF]

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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Autopsy histology data suggest cirrhosis is frequently under-reported on death certificates [PDF]

Hepatology Communications, 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:.
Hannes Hagström, Tracey G. Simon, Jonas Söderling, Jonas F. Ludvigsson   +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.
Stacey L McComish, Xirui Liu, Florencio T Martinez, Joey Y Zhou, Sergey Y Tolmachev   +4 more
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Improving Validity of Cause of Death on Death Certificates. [PDF]

ACM BCB, 2018
Accurate reporting of causes of death on death certificates is essential to formulate appropriate disease control, prevention and emergency response by national health-protection institutions such as Center for disease prevention and control (CDC).
Hoffman RA, Venugopalan J, Qu L, Wu H, Wang MD.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Accuracy of Death Certificates and Assessment of Factors for Misclassification of Underlying Cause of Death

Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
Background: Cause of death (COD) information taken from death certificates is often inaccurate and incomplete. However, the accuracy of Underlying CODs (UCODs) recorded on death certificates has not been comprehensively described when multiple diseases ...
Makiko Naka Mieno
doaj   +2 more sources