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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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Principles and Pitfalls: a Guide to Death Certification. [PDF]

Clin Med Res, 2015
Death certificates serve the critical functions of providing documentation for legal/administrative purposes and vital statistics for epidemiologic/health policy purposes.
Brooks EG, Reed KD.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mortality and quality of death certification in a cohort of patients with Parkinson's disease and matched controls in North Wales, UK at 18 years: a community-based cohort study. [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2018
Objective This investigation reports the cause and the quality of death certification in a community cohort of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and controls at 18 years. Setting Denbighshire North Wales, UK. Participants The community-based cohorts
Hobson P, Meara J.
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" DEATH CERTIFICATION." [PDF]

The Lancet, 1893
A. Ross Paterson, E.J. Gilleran
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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, Zaher Nazzal, Allam Yacoub, Mahmoud Mansour   +3 more
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Improving medical certification of cause of death: effective strategies and approaches based on experiences from the Data for Health Initiative

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background Accurate and timely cause of death (COD) data are essential for informed public health policymaking. Medical certification of COD generally provides the majority of COD data in a population and is an essential component of civil registration ...
John D. Hart, Renee Sorchik, Khin Sandar Bo, Hafizur R. Chowdhury, Saman Gamage, Rohina Joshi, Viola Kwa, Hang Li, Buddhika P. K. Mahesh, Deirdre Mclaughlin, Lene Mikkelsen, Janet Miki, Roderick Napulan, Rasika Rampatige, Matthew Reeve, Carmina Sarmiento, Nang Su War, Nicola Richards, Ian D. Riley, Alan D. Lopez   +19 more
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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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Death Certification Errors and the Effect on Mortality Statistics. [PDF]

Public Health Rep, 2017
McGivern L, Shulman L, Carney JK, Shapiro S, Bundock E.   +4 more
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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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Age-dependent inaccuracy of asthma death certification in Northern England, 1991-1992 [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 1998
David W. Reid, VJ Hendrick, TC Aitken, W T Berrill, SC Stenton, DJ Hendrick   +5 more
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