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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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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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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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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 the World Health Organization's rules for the certification of death.
Amoretti MC, Lalumera E.
europepmc   +6 more sources

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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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. 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.
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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A divergence between underlying and final causes of death in selected conditions: an analysis of death registries in Peru [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background The underlying cause of death is used to study country and global mortality trends and profiles. The final cause of death could also inform the ultimately cause of death in individuals with underlying conditions.
Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz   +1 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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Rectangularization of the Survival Curve in The Netherlands: An Analysis of Underlying Causes of Death [PDF]

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 1997
This study analyzed the contribution of selected causes of death to rectangularization of the survival curve of Dutch men and women above age 60 in the 1980s, and determined why rectangularization took place in the 1980s but not in the 1970s. The contribution of causes of death was determined by means of a decomposition analysis, using mortality data ...
Wilma J. Nusselder, Johan P. Mackenbach
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