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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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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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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 +2 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 +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Factors associated with the goal of treatment in the last week of life in old compared to very old patients: a population-based death certificate survey [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Little is known about the type of care older people of different ages receive at the end of life. The goal of treatment is an important parameter of the quality of end-of-life care. This study aims to provide an evaluation of the main goal of
Cohen, Joachim +4 more
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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 +4 more
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Systemic amyloidosis in England: an epidemiological study. [PDF]
, 2013 Epidemiological studies of systemic amyloidosis are scarce and the burden of disease in England has not previously been estimated. In 1999, the National Health Service commissioned the National Amyloidosis Centre (NAC) to provide a national clinical ...
Banypersad, SM +11 more
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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 +4 more
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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
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