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Quality of death certification based on the documented underlying cause of death: A retrospective study

Journal of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2023
The underlying cause of death (UCOD) documented in the death certificate is a cornerstone in the mortality data that has significant impact on national policies, health system, and socioeconomics. However, a wide range of inaccuracies have been reported worldwide and were linked to multiple factors, including sociodemographic development and lack of ...
Amira Al-Badi   +2 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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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   +2 more
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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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A Comparison of Underlying Cause and Multiple Causes of Death

Epidemiology, 2006
Mortality statistics can be compiled using underlying cause-of-death data or multiple cause-of-death data, which include other contributing causes of death.For the leading causes of death in the United States during 2000-2001, we compared underlying and multiple cause-of-death statistics.For some conditions, little difference was observed between the 2
Matthew D, Redelings   +2 more
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Using the National Death Index to Obtain Underlying Cause of Death Codes

Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 1998
This study evaluated the comparability of underlying cause of death codes obtained from NDI Plus, a new feature of the National Death Index (NDI), with codes assigned by two study nosologists or by a National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) nosologist. Two study nosologists and an NCHS nosologist independently reviewed the death certificates of 493
N, Sathiakumar, E, Delzell, O, Abdalla
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Diseases of the nervous system as the underlying cause of death

S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry
Objective. To identify the leading causes of death in the adult population from the class of diseases of the nervous system (DNS, class G) according to medical death certificates (MDC) and to discuss the problems of their assessment. Material and methods. The source of information was the electronic database of the Main Department of the Civil Registry
I.V. Samorodskaya   +3 more
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Increase in Deaths Caused by HIV Infection Due to Changes in Rules for Selecting Underlying Cause of Death

JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2003
With implementation of the (ICD-10), for U.S. vital statistics in 1999, the criteria for selecting HIV infection as the underlying cause of death were expanded. To estimate the effect of ICD-10 rules on the number of deaths attributed to HIV infection, we applied a simplified version of ICD-10 rules to data on causes of death from all U.S.
Richard M, Selik   +3 more
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Small-Area Variation in Multiple Causes of Death in Sweden—A Comparison with Underlying Causes of Death

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1995
The effect of using multiple causes of death, i.e. all causes of death mentioned on the death certificates, compared to using the underlying cause of death only for analyses of regional variation among small areas in mortality for asthma, diabetes, hypertensive disease and cerebrovascular disease was studied.Standardized mortality ratios (SMR) were ...
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[Validation of the underlying cause of death in medicolegal deaths].

Revista espanola de salud publica, 2011
Deaths due to external causes require additional medical tests in order to determine the cause of death. If these results are not incorporated into the death register these causes may be misclassified. The objective of this study is to validate the underlying cause of death of the Mortality Register with information obtained from forensic sources in ...
Mercè, Gotsens   +9 more
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