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Mortality rates and the causes of death related to diabetes mellitus in Shanghai Songjiang District: an 11-year retrospective analysis of death certificates

BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2015
BackgroundChina is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world. We analysed all the death certificates mentioning diabetes from 2002 to 2012 in Songjiang District of Shanghai to estimate morality rates and examine cause of ...
Meiying Zhu, Jiangfeng Li, Zhiyuan Li, Wei Luo, Dajun Dai, Scott R. Weaver, C. Stauber, R. Luo, Hua Fu   +8 more
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Identification of pneumonia and influenza deaths using the death certificate pipeline

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012
Background Death records are a rich source of data, which can be used to assist with public surveillance and/or decision support. However, to use this type of data for such purposes it has to be transformed into a coded format to make it computable ...
Davis Kailah, Staes Catherine, Duncan Jeff, Igo Sean, Facelli Julio C   +4 more
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Maternal deaths databases analysis: Ecuador 2003-2013

Journal of Public Health Research, 2016
Background: Maternal mortality ratio in Ecuador is the only millennium goal on which national agencies are still making strong efforts to reach 2015 target.
Antonio Pino, María Albán, Alejandra Rivas, Erika Rodríguez   +3 more
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Under Reporting of Dementia Deaths on Death Certificates: A Systematic Review of Population-based Cohort Studies

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2014
The purpose of this review is to assess the extent to which dementia is omitted as a cause of death from the death certificates of patients with dementia.
J. P. Romero, J. Benito‐León, E. Louis, F. Bermejo-Pareja   +3 more
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Limitations in the recording of maternal mortality in Germany: An analysis of statistical challenges [PDF]

Journal of Health Monitoring
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal mortality as the death of a woman during pregnancy or up to 42 days after delivery. The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) serves as an indicator of the quality of health care.
Safiya Fatima Zaloum, Julia Callaghan, Amira Goepfrich, Joachim Dudenhausen, Lars Paulson, Lars Hellmeyer, Klaus Vetter, Martina Ziegert, Thorsten Braun, Josefine Theresia Koenigbauer   +9 more
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Causes of mortality for Indonesian Hajj Pilgrims: comparison between routine death certificate and verbal autopsy findings. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Indonesia provides the largest single source of pilgrims for the Hajj (10%). In the last two decades, mortality rates for Indonesian pilgrims ranged between 200-380 deaths per 100,000 pilgrims over the 10-week Hajj period.
Masdalina Pane, Sholah Imari, Qomariah Alwi, I Nyoman Kandun, Alex R Cook, Gina Samaan   +5 more
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Quality comparison of electronic versus paper death certificates in France, 2010

Population Health Metrics, 2014
BackgroundElectronic death certification was established in France in 2007. A methodology based on intrinsic characteristics of death certificates was designed to compare the quality of electronic versus paper death certificates.MethodsAll death ...
D. Lefeuvre, G. Pavillon, A. Aouba, A. Lamarche-Vadel, A. Fouillet, E. Jougla, G. Rey   +6 more
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Evaluation of Errors on Death Certificates

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council
Background: Death certificates provide vital data for disease surveillance and health policy. However, errors are common globally, undermining data reliability.
Alok Atreya, Bina Acharya, Purushottam Prasad Yadav, Ritesh G Menezes, Samata Nepal   +4 more
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Insights on dying, dementia and death certificates

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, Alexander Meirschaert, Jan Steyaert, Jan De Lepeleire   +3 more
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Inadequacies of death certification in Beirut: who is responsible?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To assess the completeness of data on death certificates over the past 25 years in Beirut, Lebanon, and to examine factors associated with the absence of certifiers' signatures and the non-reporting of the underlying cause of death. METHODS: A
Abla M. Sibai, Iman Nuwayhid, May Beydoun, Monique Chaaya   +3 more
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