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A validation of underlying cause of death, as recorded by clinicians on stillbirth and neonatal death certificates

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1986
Summary. Clinical case notes and necropsy reports were used to validate underlying causes of death as recorded and coded on 590 stillbirth and neonatal death certificates. There were 55 cases ascribed to respiratory distress syndrome, in 45 this was validated, three cases were not assigned to respiratory distress syndrome which should have been.
L. Duley
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Undiagnosed acromegaly as an underlying cause of sudden death

Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 2021
We report a case of sudden death in a 31-year-old male diagnosed at autopsy with clinical undiagnosed acromegaly. The purpose of this report is to underline the importance of health professionals reacting to phenotypic acromegaly, such as acral enlargement and/or unexplained hypertension, including a range of severe comorbidities, to avoid a fatal ...
Anna Elisabet Borgen, Anne Birgitte Dyhre Bugge, Eva Løbner Lund, Jytte Banner   +3 more
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Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Medical Journal of Australia, 2022
To provide updated estimates of life expectancy at birth for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018; to quantify the contributions of changes in life years lost to disease‐specific causes of death to overall changes in ...
Yuejen Zhao, S. Li, Tom Wilson, C. P. Burgess   +3 more
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Underlying Causes of Death of 1000 Patients with Diabetes

New England Journal of Medicine, 1958
STUDIES of long-term trends of death rates were made more difficult by the adoption, in 1948, of the sixth revision of the Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuri...
H L, LOMBARD, E P, JOSLIN
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The Automated Classification of Medical Entities (ACME) system objectively assessed the appropriateness of underlying cause-of-death certification and assignment

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2005
Tsung-Hsueh Lu
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Trends in death rate from diabetes according to multiple-cause-of-death differed from that according to underlying-cause-of-death in Taiwan but not in the United States, 1987–2007

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2012
Tsung-Hsueh Lu
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CHD was overrepresented as an underlying cause of death on death certificates

Evidence-based Cardiovascular Medicine, 1999
S. Ebrahim
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Current state of cause of death determinations in Japan and the need to list the precise underlying cause of death

Medicine, Science and the Law, 2022
When death is caused by a disease, the precise cause of the death must be determined to promote health and contribute to prevention efforts. The circumstances of death should also be clarified so that measures can be taken to prevent the recurrence.
Ken Inoue, Shuntaro Abe, Tatsushige Fukunaga   +2 more
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Using birth defects registry data to evaluate infant and childhood mortality associated with birth defects: An alternative to traditional mortality assessment using underlying cause of death statistics

Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 2007
Russell S Kirby
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Unsuitable Underlying Causes of Death for Assessing the Quality of Cause-of-death Reporting.

National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, 2021
Objectives-This report expands the measures used to evaluate cause-of-death data quality by presenting a novel list of unsuitable underlying causes of death (UCOD). This list is intended to facilitate the measurement of the quality of cause-of-death reporting by medical certifiers in terms of completeness, as assessed by a UCOD that is sufficiently ...
Lee A, Flagg, Robert N, Anderson
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