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.
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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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SAGE Open Medicine, 2021 Introduction: Certification of out-of-hospital deaths is challenging as physicians are often unavailable at the scene. In these situations, emergency medical services will generally transport the decedent to the nearest hospital.
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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 Death in Singapore
Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2014 Proper certification of death has legal, social, and epidemiological significance. There is unfortunately little in the existing medical literature relevant to such an important issue in Singapore.
Serene Ai Kiang Ong MSc +1 more
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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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Uncertainties in death certification. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2012 Death is one of life’s few certainties, and most GPs will inevitably preside over a few patient deaths each year. Indeed, the apotheosis of the ‘good death’ could be the patient who dies at home, dignified and pain-free following well-coordinated interdisciplinary palliative care.1 Given that around three-quarters of people express a wish to die at ...
Lakasing E, Minkoff S.
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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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Quality of Medical Certification of Cause of Death in a City of Assam [PDF]
Indian Journal of Community MedicineBackground: Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD) is essential for generating reliable mortality statistics, while errors in medical certification can affect disease surveillance and health planning.
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