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Getting all the facts of death

South African Family Practice, 2009
We conducted a study of death notification form (DNF) completion relating to 844 deceased Cape Town residents, and evaluated the completeness of information on the forms.
Elsie H. Burger, Jimmy Volmink
doaj   +1 more source

Death or survival from invasive pneumococcal disease in Scotland: associations with serogroups and multilocus sequence types [PDF]

, 2011
We describe associations between death from invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and particular serogroups and sequence types (STs) determined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) using data from Scotland.
Andrew Smith, Aspa, Austrian, Avery, Blake, Cecil, Chris Robertson, David Greenhalgh, Diggle, Donald Inverarity, Giles F. S. Edwards, Guimbao Bescós, Huss, Inostroza, Jim McMenamin, Johanna M. C. Jefferies, Karen Lamb, Kendrick, Lamb, Martin, Mathew Diggle, Shapiro, Stuart C. Clarke, Tim J. Mitchell, Weiss   +24 more
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Provider reported challenges with completing death certificates: A focus group study demonstrating potential sources of error.

PLoS ONE, 2022
ObjectivesTo characterize the experiences of providers in completing the cause of death section on death certificates, with particular reference to deaths in people who have cancer.MethodsFocus groups were conducted until thematic saturation was reached,
Allie Morgan, Thomas Andrew, Sylvia M A Guerra, Valeria Luna, Louise Davies, Judy R Rees   +5 more
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Contemporary accuracy of death certificates for coding prostate cancer as a cause of death: Is reliance on death certification good enough? A comparison with blinded review by an independent cause of death evaluation committee

British Journal of Cancer, 2016
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, C. Metcalfe, J. Donovan, S. Noble, Jonathan A. C. Sterne, J. Lane, Eleanor I Walsh, Elizabeth M Hill, L. Down, Y. Ben-Shlomo, Steven E Oliver, S. Evans, P. Brindle, Naomi J. Williams, Laura J. Hughes, Charlotte F Davies, S. Ng, D. E. Neal, F. Hamdy, P. Albertsen, Colette Reid, J. Oxley, J. McFarlane, M. Robinson, J. Adolfsson, A. Zietman, M. Baum, A. Koupparis, Richard M Martin   +28 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Saving lives through certifying deaths: assessing the impact of two interventions to improve cause of death data in Perú

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Mortality statistics derived from cause of death data are an important source of information for population health monitoring, priority setting and planning.
Janet Miki, Rasika Rampatige, Nicola Richards, Tim Adair, Juan Cortez-Escalante, Javier Vargas-Herrera   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reforming death certification [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
EDITOR—The government has cited cost and bureaucracy as reasons for not reforming death certification, as recommended by the Luce report and by Dame Janet Smith's report into the Shipman affair. …
openaire   +2 more sources

Investigating sudden unexpected deaths in infancy and childhood and caring for bereaved families : an integrated multiagency approach [PDF]

, 2004
The sudden unexpected death of an infant or child is one of the worst events to happen to any family. Bereaved parents expect and should receive appropriate, thorough, and sensitive investigations to identify the medical causes of such deaths.
Blair, Peter S., Fleming, Peter J., Hayler, Tracy, Sidebotham, Peter   +3 more
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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, Siang Hui Lai MBBS, DMJ(Path), FRCPath   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Care at the End of Life [PDF]

, 2011
Reviews RWJF's investments in improving end-of-life care, impact on the field, and lessons learned, including the need to coordinate objectives, integrate strategies, tie strategies to policy changes and incentives, and link communications and ...
Abby Spector, Elizabeth Thompson, Patricia Patrizi   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Correlates of undefined cause of injury coded mortality data in Australia [PDF]

, 2009
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, McKenzie, Kirsten, Walker, Susan (Sue)   +2 more
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