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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, Andrew M Penner, Aliya Saperstein   +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
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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
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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, Irfan, Muhammad, Khan, Javaid Ahmed, Shamim, Kanza, Siddiqui, Najm Hasan   +4 more
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Selection of the principal cause of death : studies on the basis of mortality statistics for rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]

, 1984
The official statistics of Sweden for 1971-75 show a 2.7-fold increase in mortality for men and a 3.0-fold increase for women attributed to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as the underlying cause of death.
Lindahl, B Ingemar B
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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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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, Dungu, J, Gibbs, SD, Gillmore, JD, Hawkins, PN, Lachmann, HJ, Pinney, JH, Smith, CJ, Taube, JB, Venner, CP, Wechalekar, AD, Whelan, CJ   +11 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

A reproducible approach with R markdown to automatic classification of medical certificates in French [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, we report the ongoing developments of our first participation to the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) eHealth Task 1: “Multilingual Information Extraction - ICD10 coding” (Névéol et al., 2017).
Beghini, Federica, Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria, Henrot, Genevi\ue8ve, Vezzani, Federica   +3 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

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
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