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Evaluating an educational intervention to improve the accuracy of death certification among trainees from various specialties

open access: yesBMC 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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Children’s death survey using death certificates in the Chiba prefecture

open access: yesForensic 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   +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

open access: yesBMC 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   +5 more
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Underlying cause of death identification from death certificates using reverse coding to text and a NLP based deep learning approach

open access: yesInformatics 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   +2 more
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CERTIFICATION OF CAUSES OF DEATH. [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet, 1872
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Rumsey, HenryW   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRevista 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pediatric Death Certification [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1998
To determine location, manner, and physician certifier of pediatric deaths.A descriptive study of death certificate information for all child deaths (aged birth through 17 years) for the years 1995 and 1996.Urban county of more than 780,000 population.Field of specialty of physician certifiers, location of death, and category of deaths certified by the
K A, Bowen, W N, Marshall
openaire   +2 more sources

Uncertainties in death certification [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of General Practice, 2012
Death is one of life’s few certainties, and most GPs will inevitably preside over a few patient deaths each year. Indeed, the apotheosis of the ‘good death’ could be the patient who dies at home, dignified and pain-free following well-coordinated interdisciplinary palliative care.1 Given that around three-quarters of people express a wish to die at ...
Edin, Lakasing, Simon, Minkoff
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