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Identification of pneumonia and influenza deaths using the death certificate pipeline

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012
Background Death records are a rich source of data, which can be used to assist with public surveillance and/or decision support. However, to use this type of data for such purposes it has to be transformed into a coded format to make it computable ...
Davis Kailah, Staes Catherine, Duncan Jeff, Igo Sean, Facelli Julio C   +4 more
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Insights on dying, dementia and death certificates

Archives of Public Health, 2018
For our master thesis in medicine, we aimed to determine how many deaths were caused by and with dementia in 2014 and we compared our results with figures from abroad.
Sofie Vandormael, Alexander Meirschaert, Jan Steyaert, Jan De Lepeleire   +3 more
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Evaluation of Errors on Death Certificates

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council
Background: Death certificates provide vital data for disease surveillance and health policy. However, errors are common globally, undermining data reliability.
Alok Atreya, Bina Acharya, Purushottam Prasad Yadav, Ritesh G Menezes, Samata Nepal   +4 more
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Causes of mortality for Indonesian Hajj Pilgrims: comparison between routine death certificate and verbal autopsy findings. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Indonesia provides the largest single source of pilgrims for the Hajj (10%). In the last two decades, mortality rates for Indonesian pilgrims ranged between 200-380 deaths per 100,000 pilgrims over the 10-week Hajj period.
Masdalina Pane, Sholah Imari, Qomariah Alwi, I Nyoman Kandun, Alex R Cook, Gina Samaan   +5 more
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Inadequacies of death certification in Beirut: who is responsible?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To assess the completeness of data on death certificates over the past 25 years in Beirut, Lebanon, and to examine factors associated with the absence of certifiers' signatures and the non-reporting of the underlying cause of death. METHODS: A
Abla M. Sibai, Iman Nuwayhid, May Beydoun, Monique Chaaya   +3 more
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Limitations in the recording of maternal mortality in Germany: An analysis of statistical challenges [PDF]

Journal of Health Monitoring
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal mortality as the death of a woman during pregnancy or up to 42 days after delivery. The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) serves as an indicator of the quality of health care.
Safiya Fatima Zaloum, Julia Callaghan, Amira Goepfrich, Joachim Dudenhausen, Lars Paulson, Lars Hellmeyer, Klaus Vetter, Martina Ziegert, Thorsten Braun, Josefine Theresia Koenigbauer   +9 more
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Death certificates underestimate infections as proximal causes of death in the U.S. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Death certificates are a primary data source for assessing the population burden of diseases; however, there are concerns regarding their accuracy. Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) coding of a terminal hospitalization may provide an alternative view.
Sushant Govindan, Letitia Shapiro, Kenneth M Langa, Theodore J Iwashyna   +3 more
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Infecção hospitalar e causas múltiplas de morte Nosocomial infection and multiple causes of death

Jornal de Pediatria, 2002
Objetivo: este estudo se propôs a avaliar a possibilidade de se obter informações de infecção hospitalar por meio da declaração de óbito. Material e métodos: foi feita revisão de prontuários de crianças que faleceram com mais de 48 horas de internação ...
Ruth N.T. Turrini, Augusto H. Santo
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Misclassification of causes of death among a small all-autopsied group of former nuclear workers: Death certificates vs. autopsy reports.

PLoS ONE
The 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, Xirui Liu, Florencio T Martinez, Joey Y Zhou, Sergey Y Tolmachev   +4 more
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Quality of reporting death certificates during COVID-19 in All India Institute of Medical Sciences of central India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: 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, Sumit T. Patil, Niranjan Sahoo, Sagar Khadanga, Lakshmi Prasad   +4 more
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