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Accuracy of Death Certificates and Assessment of Factors for Misclassification of Underlying Cause of Death [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
Background: Cause of death (COD) information taken from death certificates is often inaccurate and incomplete. However, the accuracy of Underlying CODs (UCODs) recorded on death certificates has not been comprehensively described when multiple diseases ...
Makiko Naka Mieno
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An Automated Method of Causal Inference of the Underlying Cause of Death of Citizens [PDF]

Life, 2022
It is of great significance to correctly infer the underlying cause of death for citizens, especially under the current worldwide situation. The medical resources of all countries are overwhelmed under the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 ...
Xu Yang, Hongsheng Ma, Keyan Gao, Hui Ge
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Beyond the underlying cause of death: an algorithm to study multi-morbidity at death [PDF]

Population Health Metrics
Background In countries with high life expectancy, a growing share of the population is living with several diseases, a situation referred to as multi-morbidity.
Francesco Grippo, Luisa Frova, Marilena Pappagallo, Magali Barbieri, Sergi Trias-Llimós, Viviana Egidi, France Meslé, Aline Désesquelles   +7 more
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An Automatic Approach Designed for Inference of the Underlying Cause-of-Death of Citizens [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
It is very important to have a comprehensive understanding of the health status of a country’s population, which helps to develop corresponding public health policies. Correct inference of the underlying cause-of-death for citizens is essential to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the health status of a country’s population.
Hui Ge, Keyan Gao, Shaoqiong Li, Wei Wang, Qiang Chen, Xialv Lin, Ziyi Huan, Xuemei Su, Xu Yang   +8 more
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Comparative evaluation of underlying causes of death processed by the Automated Classification of Medical Entities and the Underlying Cause of Death Selection Systems [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1998
INTRODUCTION: The correct identification of the underlying cause of death and its precise assignment to a code from the International Classification of Diseases are important issues to achieve accurate and universally comparable mortality statistics ...
Santo Augusto H., Pinheiro Celso E., Rodrigues Eliana M.   +2 more
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COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values [PDF]

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2021
In the ongoing pandemic, death statistics influence people's feelings and government policy. But when does COVID-19 qualify as the cause of death? As philosophers of medicine interested in conceptual clarification, we address the question by analyzing the World Health Organization's rules for the certification of death.
Amoretti, Maria Cristina, Lalumera, Elisabetta   +1 more
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The impact of errors in medical certification on the accuracy of the underlying cause of death [PDF]

PLOS ONE, 2021
Background Correct certification of cause of death by physicians (i.e. completing the medical certificate of cause of death or MCCOD) and correct coding according to International Classification of Diseases (ICD) rules are essential to produce quality mortality statistics to inform health policy.
U. S. H. Gamage, Tim Adair, Lene Mikkelsen, Pasyodun Koralage Buddhika Mahesh, John Hart, Hafiz Chowdhury, Hang Li, Rohina Joshi, W. M. C. K. Senevirathna, H. D. N. L. Fernando, Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D. Lopez   +11 more
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Factors associated with reporting multiple causes of death [PDF]

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2005
Background There is analytical potential for multiple cause of death data collected from death certificates. This study examines relationships of multiple causes of death as a function of factors available on the death certificate (demographics of ...
Melanie M Wall, Jinzhou Huang, John Oswald, Diane McCullen, RA Israel, JA Weed, TL Chorba, WC Hooper, DM Mannino, World Health Organization, DR Glenn, LW Pickle, DM Lloyd-Jones, J Messite   +13 more
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DeepDeath: Learning to Predict the Underlying Cause of Death with Big Data [PDF]

2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2017
Abstract Multiple cause-of-death data provides a valuable source of information that can be used to enhance health standards by predicting health related trajectories in societies with large populations. These data are often available in large quantities across U.S.
Hassanzadeh Student Me, Hamid Reza, Sha, Ying, Wang Senior Mem, May D.   +2 more
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Selection of the principal cause of death : studies on the basis of mortality statistics for rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]

, 1984
The official statistics of Sweden for 1971-75 show a 2.7-fold increase in mortality for men and a 3.0-fold increase for women attributed to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as the underlying cause of death.
Lindahl, B Ingemar B
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