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The Problematic Death Certificate
New England Journal of Medicine, 1985Since 1923, when Wells challenged the reliability of existing cancer statistics,1 over 100 publications documenting discrepancies (ranging from 20 to 40 per cent) between major clinical and autopsy diagnoses have repeatedly raised questions about the accuracy of published mortality statistics.
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Accuracy of death certificates in Neonatal deaths
Journal of Public Health, 1989Death certificates of neonates were compared with detailed clinical and pathological information provided for a national neonatal mortality survey. The systematic method of assigning the cause of death to one of seven broad categories in the survey found complete agreement with the underlying cause of death on the death certificate in 83 per cent of ...
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Death certificate completion by physicians
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996To the Editor. —The study by Drs Messite and Stellman1emphasized the inaccuracies of death certification and attributes these partly to the lack of adequate training of physicians. However, a more serious flaw in the system was also evident in their study: the very format of the death certificate encourages physicians to list mechanisms of death ...
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The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 1993
Although instructions for proper completion of the cause-of-death section of the death certificate are available, a number of published examples are controversial, confusing, or inconsistent with other recommendations and guidelines. Several such examples are described to illustrate the need for improved instructions for death certification, with the ...
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Although instructions for proper completion of the cause-of-death section of the death certificate are available, a number of published examples are controversial, confusing, or inconsistent with other recommendations and guidelines. Several such examples are described to illustrate the need for improved instructions for death certification, with the ...
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Death certification in euthanasia
Medicina Clínica (English Edition), 2022Carles, Martin-Fumadó +2 more
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