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Causes of death certification of adults: an exploratory cross-sectional study at a university hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2012
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Saudi Arabia has no precise data on causes of death. We sought to ascertain the commonest causes of death as stated in death certificates of adults and evaluate the completeness of death certificates at a teaching hospital in Riyadh.
Lubna A. Ansary, Samia A. Esmaeil, Yaser A. Adi   +2 more
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Estudo de causa básica de óbitos de menores de 15 anos, ocorridos em hospital de Florianópolis, SC (Brasil), em 1982 A study of the basic cause of death in children under 15, during 1982, in Children Hospital (Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil)

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1985
Foram analisados atestados de óbito segundo a causa básica. Da totalidade dos óbitos ocorridos em hospital infantil de Florianópolis, SC (Brasil), durante o ano de 1982, 161 foram considerados válidos para o estudo.
Geni Machado Strozzi, João Bosco Strozzi, Maria de Lourdes de Souza, Mauro Duarte Schutel   +3 more
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Investigating the Challenges of Death Registration and Classification Program and Providing a Solution: A Qualitative Study

مجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2022
Background and Objectives: The distribution of causes of death indicates the distribution of risk factors for death, and is a basis of planning and intervention to reduce risk factors.
M Gholamhoseinzadeh, L Ghadirian Marnani, E Ehsani-Chimeh, F Rajabi   +3 more
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Inadequacies of death certification in Beirut: who is responsible?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2002
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
Sibai Abla M., Nuwayhid Iman, Beydoun May, Chaaya Monique   +3 more
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Avaliação da qualidade das informações em declarações de óbitos infantis Assessment of the quality of information in infant's death certificates

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2007
OBJETIVOS: avaliar a qualidade das informações nas declarações de óbitos infantis e a confiabilidade da causa básica do óbito em menores de um ano de idade. MÉTODOS: Foram investigadas todas as declarações de óbitos de menores de um ano ocorridos de 2002
Janer Aparecida Silveira Soares, Fátima Maria Barbosa Horta, Antônio Prates Caldeira   +2 more
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Coccidioidomycosis-Attributable Death in the United States: An Analysis of Cases Reported on Death Certificates, 2018–2023

Journal of Fungi
Contemporary data on coccidioidomycosis death rates are sparse. Death certificate data for 2018–2023 from the US National Vital Statistics System were evaluated.
Huiqiao Fan, Fariba Donovan, Belinda Lovelace, Craig I. Coleman   +3 more
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Cause of death in patients with end‐stage renal disease: assessing concordance of death certificates with registry reports

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003
Objectives:To assess concordance in reporting, in two Australian national datasets, of cause of death of patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD). Methods:For deaths in 1997–99, we compared ‘cause of death’ and ‘primary renal disease’, as coded in ...
Shu Qin Li, Alan Cass, Joan Cunningham
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Accuracy of Death Certificates and Assessment of Factors for Misclassification of Underlying Cause of Death

Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
Background: Cause of death (COD) information taken from death certificates is often inaccurate and incomplete. However, the accuracy of Underlying CODs (UCODs) recorded on death certificates has not been comprehensively described when multiple diseases ...
Makiko Naka Mieno
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Enhancing timeliness of drug overdose mortality surveillance: A machine learning approach.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BACKGROUND:Timely data is key to effective public health responses to epidemics. Drug overdose deaths are identified in surveillance systems through ICD-10 codes present on death certificates.
Patrick J Ward, Peter J Rock, Svetla Slavova, April M Young, Terry L Bunn, Ramakanth Kavuluru   +5 more
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COVID-19 Death Determination Methods, Minnesota, USA, 2020–2022

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Accurate and timely mortality surveillance is crucial for elucidating risk factors, particularly for emerging diseases. We compared use of COVID-19 keywords on death certificates alone to identify COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota, USA, during 2020–2022 ...
Lydia J. Fess, Ashley Fell, Siobhan O’Toole, Paige D’Heilly, Stacy Holzbauer, Leslie Kollmann, Amanda Markelz, Keeley Morris, Abbey Ruhland, Scott Seys, Elizabeth Schiffman, Haley Wienkes, Zachary Zirnhelt, Stephanie Meyer, Kathryn Como-Sabetti   +14 more
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