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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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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

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
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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

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

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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Saving lives through certifying deaths: assessing the impact of two interventions to improve cause of death data in Perú

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Mortality statistics derived from cause of death data are an important source of information for population health monitoring, priority setting and planning.
Janet Miki, Rasika Rampatige, Nicola Richards, Tim Adair, Juan Cortez-Escalante, Javier Vargas-Herrera   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Underlying cause of death identification from death certificates using reverse coding to text and a NLP based deep learning approach

Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2020
The identification of the underlying cause of death is a matter of primary importance and one of the most challenging issues in the setting of healthcare policy making. The World Health Organisation provides guidelines for death certificates coding using
Vincenzo Della Mea, Mihai Horia Popescu, Kevin Roitero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reforming death certification [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
EDITOR—The government has cited cost and bureaucracy as reasons for not reforming death certification, as recommended by the Luce report and by Dame Janet Smith's report into the Shipman affair. …
openaire   +2 more sources

Trachoma-associated morbidity and mortality in Brazil: an ecological study focusing on hospitalization and mortality data, 2000−2022 [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Background: Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. It is a neglected tropical disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. The objective of this study was to analyze the trachoma-associated morbidity and mortality in Brazil from ...
Adjoane Maurício Silva Maciel, Anderson Fuentes Ferreira, Nádia Maria Girão Saraiva de Almeida, Manuella Maurício Silva Maciel, Taynara Lais Silva, Mirele Coelho Araújo, Roberto da Justa Pires Neto, Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr   +7 more
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