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Use of Electronic Death Certificates for Influenza Death Surveillance
Surveillance for influenza deaths has been used to gauge the severity of influenza seasons. Traditional surveillance, which relies on medical records review and laboratory testing, might not be sustainable during a pandemic.
Elizabeth A. Bancroft, Sun Lee
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Background:Accurate cause of death assignment is crucial for prostate cancer epidemiology and trials reporting prostate cancer-specific mortality outcomes.Methods:We compared death certificate information with independent cause of death evaluation by an ...
E. Turner+28 more
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The causes of death in dementia are not established, particularly in rarer dementias. The aim of this study is to calculate risk of death from specific causes for a broader spectrum of dementia diagnoses.
S. García-Ptacek+5 more
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We only die once… but from how many causes? [PDF]
When a person dies, the certifying physician records the cause of death on the death certificate. In many cases, several causes are mentioned, as well as the train of events that led to death.
Barbieri, M+13 more
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Hybrid methods for ICD-10 coding of death certificates
ICD-10 coding of death certificates has received renewed attention recently with the organization of the CLEF eHealth 2016 clinical information extraction task (CLEF eHealth 2016 Task 2).
Pierre Zweigenbaum, T. Lavergne
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Correlates of undefined cause of injury coded mortality data in Australia [PDF]
The objective of this research was to identify the level of detail regarding the external causes of death in Australia and ascertain problematic areas where data quality improvement efforts may be focused.
Chen, Linping+2 more
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Autopsy and medical death certificates in deaths related to COVID-19
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has been the largest in the current century and the reason for numerous scientific works. In Cuba, the Temporary Group of Pathological Anatomy has been established to study the autopsies of those who died from COVID-19
José Domingo Hurtado de Mendoza Amat+8 more
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Comparing strategies for United States veterans' mortality ascertainment
Background We aimed to determine optimal strategies for complete mortality ascertainment comparing death certificates and United States (US) Veterans Administration (VA) records.
Asch Steven M+4 more
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