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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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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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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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Insights on dying, dementia and death certificates [PDF]
Archives of Public Health, 2018 For our master thesis in medicine, we aimed to determine how many deaths were caused by and with dementia in 2014 and we compared our results with figures from abroad.
Sofie Vandormael +3 more
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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 +5 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 +3 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 +4 more
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