Death Certification: An Interactive Teaching Session [PDF]
MedEdPORTAL, 2023 Introduction Documentation of the cause of death is important for local and national epidemiology as well as for research and public health funding allocation.
James H. Wykowski +3 more
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Challenges facing physicians in death certification of under-five mortality in Egypt [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Improving death certification of Under 5 Mortality (U5M) is an important pre-requisite for improving child health. This study aimed to obtain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the process of death registration of U5M and address the ...
Mirette M Aziz, Nevein Dous
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Evaluating an educational intervention to improve the accuracy of death certification among trainees from various specialties [PDF]
BMC 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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The quality of medical death certification of cause of death in hospitals in rural Bangladesh: impact of introducing the International Form of Medical Certificate of Cause of Death [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Accurate and timely data on cause of death are critically important for guiding health programs and policies. Deaths certified by doctors are implicitly considered to be reliable and accurate, yet the quality of information provided in the ...
Riley H. Hazard +10 more
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Death Certification: Errors and Interventions. [PDF]
Clin Med Res, 2020 Objective Death certificates are legal documents containing critical information. Despite the importance of accurate certification, errors remain common.
Schuppener LM, Olson K, Brooks EG.
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Factors associated with the quality of death certification in Brazilian municipalities: A data-driven non-linear model [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Studies evaluating the local quality of death certification in Brazil focused on completeness of death reporting or inappropriate coding of causes of death, with few investigating missing data. We aimed to use missing and unexpected values in core topics
Guilherme Augusto Zimeo Morais +9 more
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Quality of death certification in Colombia. [PDF]
Colomb Med (Cali), 2018 Objective: To evaluate the quality of the certification of general death and cancer in Colombia. Methods: Validity indicators were described for each province and the cities of Bogotá, Cali, Manizales, Pasto and Bucaramanga.
Cendales R, Pardo C.
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Accuracy of death certification of dementia in population-based samples of older people: analysis over time. [PDF]
Age Ageing, 2018 Background death certification data are routinely collected in most developed countries. Coded causes of death are a readily accessible source and have the potential advantage of providing complete follow-up, but with limitations.
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Improving cause of death certification in the Philippines: implementation of an electronic verbal autopsy decision support tool (SmartVA auto-analyse) to aid physician diagnoses of out-of-facility deaths [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background The majority of deaths in the Philippines occur out-of-facility and require a medical certificate of cause of death by Municipal Health Officers (MHOs) for burial.
Rohina Joshi +14 more
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Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2014 Background: A high incidence of errors occur while filling up death certificates in hospitals. The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of an educational intervention on errors in death certification in an intensive care unit (ICU).
Afzal Azim +6 more
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