Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death: a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes, or both? [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2022 Aim: The underlying cause of death represents the most important information on death certificates. Often, conditions that cannot represent a true underlying cause of death are listed as such. This phenomenon affects the quality of vital statistics and results of studies using cause-specific mortality as ...
Gerhard Sulo +4 more
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Factors associated with the reporting of Down syndrome as the underlying cause of death on US death certificates [PDF]
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 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.
Scott D Landes
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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 Clinic Proceedings, 2021 Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a high death toll. We aimed to describe the place and cause of death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This national death registry included all adult (aged [≥]18 years) deaths in England and Wales ...
Jianhua Wu +2 more
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Improving the usefulness of US mortality data: new methods for reclassification of underlying cause of death. [PDF]
Popul Health Metr, 2016 Background Mortality data are affected by miscertification of the medical cause of death deaths and changes to cause of death classification systems. We present both mappings of ICD9 and ICD10 to a unified list of causes, and a new statistical model for ...
Foreman KJ, Naghavi M, Ezzati M.
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Assessing quality of medical death certification: Concordance between gold standard diagnosis and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background In Mexico, the vital registration system relies on information collected from death certificates to generate official mortality figures. Although the death certificate has high coverage across the country, there is little information regarding
Romero Minerva +5 more
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Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. [PDF]
The LancetBackgroundRegular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics ...
GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators, +1 more
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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 +10 more
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Cause-specific mortality analysis: Is the underlying cause of death sufficient? [PDF]
Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal, 2014 Resume L’analyse de la mortalite par cause repose principalement sur l’etude de la cause principale du deces. Notre point de vue est que cette approche n’est pas suffisante. Dans un nombre croissant de pays, toutes les causes reportees par les medecins sur les certificats de deces (ou «causes multiples») sont enregistrees et codees.
Désesquelles, Aline +6 more
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Underlying Cause of Death Recorded during 2013 to 2015 at a Tertiary General Hospital in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR. [PDF]
Nagoya J Med Sci, 2017 2017-05In Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the cause of death is not registered in death reports. As a result, the government cannot produce official reports that show mortality according to cause of death.
Phoummalaysith B +5 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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