Improving the usefulness of US mortality data: new methods for reclassification of underlying cause of death. [PDF]
Popul Health Metr, 2016 Mappings of ICD9 and ICD10 codes to condensed set of causes of death, including garbage codes.
Foreman KJ, Naghavi M, Ezzati M.
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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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Beyond the underlying cause of death: an algorithm to study multi-morbidity at death [PDF]
Population Health MetricsBackground 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 +7 more
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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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Heart failure quantified by underlying cause and multiple cause of death in Brazil between 2006 and 2016 [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) does not produce estimates of heart failure (HF) since this condition is considered the common end to several diseases (i.e., garbage code).
Paolo Blanco Villela +2 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 AbstractBackgroundEfforts aimed at preventing premature mortality for people with Down syndrome are hindered by the practice of reporting disability as the underlying cause of death. Prior research suggests this form of diagnostic overshadowing may be the result of increased uncertainty surrounding the death.MethodsThis study uses bivariable analysis ...
Landes SD, Turk MA, Finan JM.
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Hypertension is the underlying cause of death assessed at the autopsy of individuals [PDF]
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2019 Objective: To analyze hypertension and its relationship with the causes of death identified by the autopsy. Method: Cross-sectional study analyzed 356 participants belonging to the Brazilian Aging Brain Study Group, over 50 years of age, autopsied at ...
Juliana Chaves Coelho +5 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 ...
Oswald John +3 more
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Place and Underlying Cause of Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Cohort Study of 3.5 Million Deaths in England and Wales, 2014 to 2020. [PDF]
Mayo Clin Proc, 2021 Wu J +7 more
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Accuracy of information on the underlying cause of death: An analysis in Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. [PDF]
PLoS OneChaparro-Narváez P +9 more
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