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.
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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 +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 [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 +16 more
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Quality of reporting death certificates during COVID-19 in All India Institute of Medical Sciences of central India [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareBackground: Death certificates provide a measure of the relative contributions of different diseases to mortality, which is vital for public health surveillance and for facilitating short-term and long-term plans by the health authorities.
Kawal Krishan +4 more
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Factors Associated with Major Errors on Death Certificates. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2022 The objective of this study was to investigate errors on death certificates and factors associated with the occurrence of major errors. A retrospective analysis was conducted for six months in 2020 at a university training hospital. Errors were judged as
Chung S, Kim SH, Park BJ, Park S.
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Use of Electronic Death Certificates for Influenza Death Surveillance
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 Surveillance for influenza deaths has been used to gauge the severity of influenza seasons. Traditional surveillance, which relies on medical records review and laboratory testing, might not be sustainable during a pandemic.
Elizabeth A. Bancroft, Sun Lee
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Coccidioidomycosis-Attributable Death in the United States: An Analysis of Cases Reported on Death Certificates, 2018–2023 [PDF]
Journal of FungiContemporary data on coccidioidomycosis death rates are sparse. Death certificate data for 2018–2023 from the US National Vital Statistics System were evaluated.
Huiqiao Fan +3 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 +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 ONEThe 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 +4 more
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Automatic ICD-10 classification of cancers from free-text death certificates
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2015 Objective\ud \ud Death certificates provide an invaluable source for cancer mortality statistics; however, this value can only be realised if accurate, quantitative data can be extracted from certificates – an aim hampered by both the volume and variable
Bevan Koopman +2 more
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