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Reporting Down syndrome on the death certificate for Alzheimer disease/unspecified dementia deaths

PLoS ONE, 2023
Background Death certificates are crucial for understanding population health trends including the burden of disease mortality. Accurate reporting of causes of death on these records is necessary in order to implement adequate public health policies and ...
Scott D. Landes, Julia M. Finan, Margaret A. Turk   +2 more
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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, Sun Hyu Kim, Byungho Choi, Minsu Ock, Eun Ji Park   +4 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
doaj   +1 more source

Community Perceptions in the Management of Birth Certificates and Death Certificates in the Department of Population and Civil Registry of West Aceh Regency

Jurnal Public Policy, 2021
This study aims to determine how public perceptions are and the factors that influence community perceptions in the service of obtaining birth certificates and death certificates at the Department of Population and Civil Registry of West Aceh Regency ...
Nurul Badria Ulfa, Ikhsan Ikhsan, Nodi Marefanda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Semantics of Death Certification

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1986
Stephen Leadbeatter
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Underreporting of Death Certification in a University Teaching Hospital – A Hospital Based Study in Ireland

International Journal of Gerontology, 2018
Summary: Background: Death certificates are frequently used as the source for epidemiological data on the prevalence of diseases. We postulated that comorbidities may be under-documented, particularly in older patients with multiple coexisting ...
G. Mulkerrin, D. Ní Chaoimh, C. MacLoughlin, S.T. O'Keeffe, E. Mulkerrin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Death certificate completion skills of hospital physicians in a developing country [PDF]

, 2013
Background Death certificates (DC) can provide valuable health status data regarding disease incidence, prevalence and mortality in a community. It can guide local health policy and help in setting priorities.
Haque, Ahmed Suleman, Irfan, Muhammad, Khan, Javaid Ahmed, Shamim, Kanza, Siddiqui, Najm Hasan   +4 more
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Children’s death survey using death certificates in the Chiba prefecture

Forensic Science International: Reports, 2021
In recent years, Child Death Review (CDR) has attracted attention in Japan. It is necessary to consider not only hospital deaths but also out-of-hospital deaths.
Shumari Urabe, Kenji Ishihara, Fumiko Chiba, Rutsuko Yamaguchi, Yuki Shiko, Yohei Kawasaki, Hirotaro Iwase   +6 more
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Evaluating an educational intervention to improve the accuracy of death certification among trainees from various specialties

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
doaj   +1 more source

Selection of the principal cause of death : studies on the basis of mortality statistics for rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]

, 1984
The official statistics of Sweden for 1971-75 show a 2.7-fold increase in mortality for men and a 3.0-fold increase for women attributed to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as the underlying cause of death.
Lindahl, B Ingemar B
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