Educational Case: Death Certification and the Role of the Medical Examiner/Coroner [PDF]
Academic Pathology, 2018 The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology.
Sarah Meyers MD
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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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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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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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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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Certification of Brain Stem Death in India Medico-Legal Perspectives
Amrita Journal of Medicine, 2020 At present, the determination of brain stem death for the declaration of death in India is a clinical practice followed only in the context of organ donation.
Noble Gracious, Roshan Veena
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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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Physicians’ knowledge and practice on death certification in the North West Bank, Palestine: across sectional study [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Mortality data are essential for many aspects of everyday public health practices at both national and international levels. Despite the current developments in various aspects of the medical field, the apparent inability of physicians to ...
Jamal A. S. Qaddumi +3 more
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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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Usability of electronic death registration system: A case study of heuristic evaluation
International Archives of Health Sciences, 2021 Aim: This study was conducted to identify gaps in the user interface design of Iran's Electronic Death Registration System (National Registry) using the heuristic method.
Fatemeh Rangraz Jeddi +2 more
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