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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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COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci, 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 ...
Amoretti MC, Lalumera E.
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An Automatic Approach Designed for Inference of the Underlying Cause-of-Death of Citizens. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res 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.
Ge H, Gao K, Li S, Wang W, Chen Q, Lin X, Huan Z, Su X, Yang X.   +8 more
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Accuracy of Death Certificates and Assessment of Factors for Misclassification of Underlying Cause of Death

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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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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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.
Gamage USH, Adair T, Mikkelsen L, Mahesh PKB, Hart J, Chowdhury H, Li H, Joshi R, Senevirathna WMCK, Fernando HDNL, McLaughlin D, Lopez AD.   +11 more
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Obscuring effect of coding developmental disability as the underlying cause of death on mortality trends for adults with developmental disability: a cross-sectional study using US Mortality Data from 2012 to 2016. [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2019
Objective To determine whether coding a developmental disability as the underlying cause of death obscures mortality trends of adults with developmental disability.
Landes SD, Stevens JD, Turk MA.
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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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Factors associated with the reporting of Down syndrome as the underlying cause of death on US death certificates. [PDF]

J Intellect Disabil Res, 2022
BACKGROUND Efforts aimed at preventing premature mortality for people with Down syndrome are hindered by the practice of reporting disability as the underlying cause of death.
Landes SD, Turk MA, Finan JM.
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Assessment of COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Children and Young People Aged 0 to 19 Years in the US.

JAMA Netw Open, 2023
Key Points Question Where does COVID-19 rank as an underlying cause of death for children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in the US? Findings Among children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in the US, COVID-19 ranked eighth among all causes of ...
Flaxman S, Whittaker C, Semenova E, Rashid T, Parks RM, Blenkinsop A, Unwin HJT, Mishra S, Bhatt S, Gurdasani D, Ratmann O.   +10 more
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