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.
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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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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:.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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).
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Pediatric Death Certification [PDF]
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1998 To determine location, manner, and physician certifier of pediatric deaths.A descriptive study of death certificate information for all child deaths (aged birth through 17 years) for the years 1995 and 1996.Urban county of more than 780,000 population.Field of specialty of physician certifiers, location of death, and category of deaths certified by the
K A, Bowen, W N, Marshall
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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 ...
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